Environmental Influences On Beach Processes

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The beach are not separated environments, as they receive energy and material, process these inputs, and consequently may lose them as an output. This physical process which combine the inputs, outputs and interactions that effect could be determined in a system that acts together in shaping the coastal morphology. Variations in inputs could cause modification in the physical environment, for example, an increase in wave energy may enhance beach erosion, or a decrease in nutrients may limit biological efficiency, so that demonstrating all natural coastal operations are interlinked in certain way or altogether.
The beach processes are greatly influenced by the physical changes that combines multi-parameters not only from the ocean but also the

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