Sentence examples for dune building from inspiring English sources

The projects can include sea wall or dune building and nourishing beaches to a higher elevation with millions of cubic yards of sand.

A progressive northward shift through time in the parameters controlling dune building activity is seen.

Blue-green light stimulated luminescence chronometry of six fossil dunes indicates that the dune building activity started around 26 ka and continued episodically until around 5 ka.

Following construction, natural accretion of sediment on the backshore is preferable as it facilitates sustained natural dune building, growth of vegetation, and habitat creation and reduces the need for further beach scraping.

Causal links that connect Holocene high stands of Lake Superior with dune building, stream damming and diversion and reservoir impoundment and infilling are inferred from a multidisciplinary investigation of a small watershed along the SE shore of Lake Superior.

35 OSL ages demonstrate humid episodes occurred in MIS 5e, 5a and the early Holocene, with a major dry dune building phase in late MIS 3, and the onset of dry conditions again from 6 ka.

In the extreme case of Indiana Dunes, building density outside the park increased from 45 to 200 buildings/km2 and road density almost doubled from 3.6 to 6.6 km/km2 from 1938 to 2005.

Dune-building is already under way in some areas, but some oceanfront property owners have refused to sign the necessary easements; it might spoil the view.

Last year, state officials killed a controversial $52.8 million Army Corps of Engineers beach- and dune-building project that would have protected oceanfront houses.

In his five-year tenure, Mr. Dillon had butted heads over beach- and dune-building projects the communities wanted to carry out at their own expense.

On Sapelo Island, a greater abundance of dune-building and burial-intolerant swale species may confer a higher topographic roughness and more resistance to overwash exposure and contagion.