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Hard structural stabilization
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such as groins, jetties seawalls and breakwaters
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Soft structural stabilization
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such as beach nourishment
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Nonstructural strategies
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such as land-use restriction and zoning
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Groins
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are impermeable structures that extend, fingerlike, perpendicularly from the shore
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jetties
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are used to stabilize the channel where harbors, rivers, lagoons and estuaries open out into the ocean
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seawall
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is a hard structure constructed on the inland part of a coastto reduce the effects of strong waves and to defend the coast around a town or harbor from erosion
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Breakwaters
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are structures built parallel to a shoreline to protect an anchorage from the effects of weather and longshore drift
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TEST:
What do jetties, groins, seawalls, and breakwaters all have in common? |
They all increase erosion
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Beach Nourishment
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is the addition of sand and sediment to a beach to replace sand and sediment that has been eroded away
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estuary
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is a body of water along a coastline, open to the sea, in which the tides rise and fall and in which fresh and salt water mix
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TEST:
Zuider Zee |
More than a half million acres of new farmland have been created
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