"bar" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This coast is an offshore bar.
- The throng uttered a sound like a wave breaking gently on an offshore bar.
- Later, the modern coastline "was established through the buildup of an offshore bar", and the ridges of the site became surrounded by a water-filled lagoon.
- Longshore currents also commonly create offshore bars, which give beaches some stability by reducing erosion.
- But if the necessary very gentle offshore gradient can be produced on any type of shoreline it is quite likely that offshore bars may form.
- The usual explanation of offshore bars is that given by Johnson (1919) and the stages of formation envisaged by him are shown in Fig. 8. 18.
- Given a slight negative movement of base level, underwater sandbanks may appear above high tide level and could be converted into offshore bars by wave action.
- Scolt Head Island, the most fully developed offshore bar on the Norfolk coast, has had a history comparable with the above idealised conditions.
- Much of the sand that moves off the beach ends up in offshore bars, and in calm weather, some of the sand will move back onshore.
- For example; when a beach in equilibrium erodes during a storm it forms an offshore bar that in turn forces waves to break over it.
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