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- the landward flux of water due to overtopping of a dune system while 'washover' may refer to the sediment deposited by overwash. A common process on barrier...
- concept" has been discussed with reference to barrier islands, overwash, and washover deposits since the 1970s. The concept basically states that overwash processes...
- damage to freshwater lenses due to an increase in cyclone-generated wave washover, rendering many islands uninhabitable with the loss of potable water. Bailey...
- relative sea level rise, and tropical storm activity. Today, hurricane washovers and wind-carried sand deposited in Laguna Madre build Padre Island's landward...
- with saline, brackish, and freshwater marshes, barrier islands with minor washover fans, and tidal flat sands and clays. In the inland section from Matagorda...
- Wash**** barrier beach crest heights were raised 2.0–2.5m to minimise washover, washover sediment was used to fill the body of the beach and river gravels...
- C.; Engel, M. (August 2017). "Luminescence dating of cyclone-induced washover fans at Point Lefroy (NW Australia)". Quaternary Geochronology. 41: 134–150...
- Coastline Reports 17, 65–80 Switzer, A.D.; Jones B.G. (2008). "Large-scale washover sedimentation in a freshwater lagoon from the southeast Australian coast:...
- breached 27 sand dunes, destroying 60% of the dune line. Sediment from storm washover measured 50 cm (20 in) thick behind the beach. Sections of many eroded...
- surface of bed dolomitised. Middle li****ic of the High Atlas, Morocco. Washover, ammonites and belemnites (by storms) on top of a regressive cycle, supratidal...