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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Boulder Beaches

Author : John McKenna

Published in: Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Strictly speaking a boulder beach is one where the mean clast size meets the formal definition of “boulder” in the terms of the Wentworth grade scale, that is with a mean particle dia-meter of >256 mm (−8 phi) (Wentworth, 1922). However, the term is also sometimes used in a general sense to describe beaches where the sediment is a mixture of boulders and large cobbles. …

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Literature
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2.
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Oak, H.L., 1984. The boulder beach: a fundamentally distinct sedimentary assemblage. Annals Association American Geographers, 74(1):71–82.
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Shelley, D., 1968. Fitting boulders: the result of an important shore process. Nature, 220: 1020–1021.
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Metadata
Title
Boulder Beaches
Author
John McKenna
Copyright Year
2005
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-1903-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4020-3880-8

Copyright Year: 2005

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3880-1_56