Beach morphology and sediments of the Canterbury Bight.
The 84 miles of mixed sand and shingle beach between Banks Peninsula and Dashing Rocks, Timaru, is a high energy shoreline exposed to vigorous wave action emanating from the south Pacific Ocean. Much of the coastline is actively retrograding. However, short term and seasonal variations in beach prof...
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Language: | en |
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University of Canterbury. Department of Geography
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3975 |