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2.2 Coastal Systems

Course week(s) Week 2
Course subject(s) Water Systems

Welcome to the second lecture of the module Water systems. In the video below Marcel Stive and Judith Bosboom will teach you about Coastal systems.

Slides & Handouts

Study Goals

After this lecture you will be able to understand:

Formation of coasts in climatic warming periods (interglacials)
Coastline position on the shelf edges
Coastline character
Coastline erosion due to sea level rise

The Origin and Evolution of a Beach

In the video below you will learn about The origin and evolution of a beach.

Study Goals

After this lecture you will be able to understand:

origin of the sediment
longshore current
seasonal variation
relation between sediment grainsize and slope

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Introduction to Water and Climate by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/introduction-water-climate/.

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