Sentence examples for beach system from inspiring English sources
Few specimens of Peneroplis pertusus possibly reflect minor influence of open marine waters (minor overwash events?) and the existence of the adjacent barrier beach system.
The beach system especially loses its functionality as a place of leisure and recreation when its natural elements represent a risk for the health of beach users.
The area between Lefkada Island and the Bay of Aghios Nikolaos (NW Greece) is characterized by a barrier beach system, separating the shallow Lagoon of Lefkada from the open Ionian Sea (Fig. 1).
The northern part of the Lefkada Lagoon, separated from the Ionian Sea by an extensive barrier beach system, is characterized by a number of fan-like washover structures, formed by different washover generations.
The related marshy plain is separated from the recent beach system by the so-called Canali Stretti, a former channel leading from the central part of the Lagoon of Lefkada in north-eastern direction into the Bay of Aghios Nikolaos.
In the eastern part of the Lefkada Lagoon, lagoonal conditions and the related Plaka barrier beach system were already established in the 6th millennium BC (Vött et al. 2007, 2009b).
The design of equilibrium beach systems employing beach nourishment techniques in conjunction with coastal support structures has received increased interest from coastal engineers in recent years.
Fan-shaped sedimentary structures extending from barrier beach systems into backbeach coastal lagoons or coastal lowlands are described worldwide and represent an important feature of coastal geomorphology.
However, long-term data sets that describe either the natural dynamics of beach systems or the human impacts on beaches are scarce and fragmentary.
Collectively, these concepts have the potential to shape the outlook for beach ecology and they should also encourage marine ecologists to embrace, via cross-disciplinary ecological research, exposed sandy beach systems that link the oceans with the land.
The dune-beach system, however, is the recharge zone of the coastal aquifer and its protection is important to reduce water and soil salinization, which in turn control the health of the whole coastal ecosystem.
