Fig. 1 Beach at three scales.


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Figure 1. Aerial views of the same beach at increasing spatial scales. Different physical processes are relevant to shoreline changes at the scale of each panel: (A) wave swash; (B) sandbars and surf-zone currents; and (C) gradients in alongshore sediment transport. (Background images courtesy of Google Earth.)

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