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Beach profile changes and onshore-offshore sand transport on the Oregon coast

Creator:

Aguilar Tunon, Nicolas A.

Abstract:

Two beaches with significant differences in grain size and thus in beach profile morphology and response to wave conditions were studied on the Oregon coast. Gleneden Beach, just south of Siletz Spit and Lincoln City, has a median grain size of 0.36 mm (medium sand) and a steep beach face...

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Masters Thesis

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shift were determined on California beaches by Shepard (1950). The overall shift in profile type is
Geology of the continental terrace off the central coast of Oregon

Creator:

Maloney, Neil Joseph

Abstract:

The continental terrace west of Oregon between 43° 50'N and 44° 40' N latitude is 50 to 55 miles wide. It consists of a continental shelf, 16 to 35 miles wide, and a continental slope, 16 to 37 miles wide. The eastern portion of the shelf is a smooth, sediment...

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Dissertation

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fathoms, however, more detailed sounding grids were z /OO C\AD JA B Y\S $ A L ASTOR/Ak c '., PLAI
Continental shelf sediments, Columbia River to Cape Blanco, Oregon

Creator:

Runge, Erwin John

Abstract:

Sediments on the inner portion of the Oregon continental shelf consist of clean, well-sorted, detrital sand. This sand has an average median diameter of 2.53Φ (. 173 mm) and is both positively and negatively skewed. Deposits with median diameters in the coarse sand and gravel classes occur at depths of...

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Dissertation

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temperature between 20 and 4°C and a salin- ity between 32% and 34%, mixed with a small amount of Pacific
Sediment sources and clay mineral distributions off the Oregon coast : evidence for a poleward slope undercurrent

Creator:

Karlin, Robert

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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(1971) found rates of from S to 50 cm/b3 yrs off Oregon based 7 on C and Mazama ash (6600 yr bp