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  • Double bar beach dynamics on the high-energy meso-macrotidal French Aquitanian Coast: A review

    Author(s)
    Castelle, Bruno
    Bonneton, Philippe
    Dupuis, Hélène
    Sénéchal, Nadia
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Castelle, Bruno O.
    Year published
    2007
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    Abstract
    The French Aquitanian Coast is an approximately 250 km long straight low coast exposed to high energy conditions in a mesomacrotidal setting. Offshore wave conditions are seasonally modulated, predominantly with a WNW incidence, with offshore significant wave height likely to reach 10 m during winter. Truc Vert Beach, representative of most of the Aquitanian Coast beaches, commonly exhibits two distinct sandbar systems. The inner bar can go through all the stateswithin the intermediate classification and usually exhibits a TansverseBar andRipmorphology. After a few weeks of lower energy conditions during summer, the inner ...
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    The French Aquitanian Coast is an approximately 250 km long straight low coast exposed to high energy conditions in a mesomacrotidal setting. Offshore wave conditions are seasonally modulated, predominantly with a WNW incidence, with offshore significant wave height likely to reach 10 m during winter. Truc Vert Beach, representative of most of the Aquitanian Coast beaches, commonly exhibits two distinct sandbar systems. The inner bar can go through all the stateswithin the intermediate classification and usually exhibits a TansverseBar andRipmorphology. After a few weeks of lower energy conditions during summer, the inner bar commonly becomes a Low Tide Terracewith ameanwavelength of 400mand amean southerlymigration rate of about 2-3m/day.Crescentic bars have been reported in the literature in nontidal to microtidal settings. Long term persistent crescentic patterns are, however, exhibited at a narrow range of wavelength (mean of 700m) by the outer bar at the meso-macrotidal Truc Vert Beach. Most of the time, the outer bar is inactive and stagnates as offshore waves of Hs>3m are required to induce a significant morphological change. The crescent shape varies from a symmetric shape to a strongly asymmetric shape, likely to be the result of a long period of NW wave conditions. A strong, and rarely observed elsewhere, morphological coupling between the inner and outer bars can sometimes be observed, and may be the result of the combined effects of the initial presence of a well-developed outer crescentic bar and a long period of shore-normal low energy conditions. A synthesis of all the data available on the area combined with observations on other environments leads to a Truc Vert Beach statemodel ranging from a modal double bar configuration to an occasional triple bar configuration. This work also identifies knowledge gaps to be explored by further numerical and field studies in tidal double sandbar environments.
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    Journal Title
    Marine Geology
    Volume
    245
    Publisher URI
    http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503350/description#description
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2007.06.001
    Subject
    Geology not elsewhere classified
    Earth Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/27779
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