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Beach profile modification and sediment transport by ice: an overlooked process on Lake Michigan

Journal of Coastal Research
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Abstract

Coastal lake ice includes a belt of mobile crash and slush ice and a stable nearshore-ice complex (NIC). Sediment concentrations indicate that the NIC and the belt of brash and slush contains 180 to 280 t (113 to 175m3) of sand per kilometer of coast. This static sediment load is roughly equivalent to the average amount of sand eroded from the bluffs and to the amount accumulating in the deep lake basin each year. Sediment is being rafted alongshore in the mobile brash and slush at rates of 10 to 30 cm/sec. -from Authors
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Beach profile modification and sediment transport by ice: an overlooked process on Lake Michigan
Series title Journal of Coastal Research
Volume 9
Issue 1
Year Published 1993
Language English
Larger Work Type Article
Larger Work Subtype Journal Article
Larger Work Title Journal of Coastal Research
First page 65
Last page 86
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