An Overview of Coastal Depositional Environments

Southern Alaska is considered to have a mixed energy coastline influenced heavily by both tides and waves. Tides average 3 m and are diurnal in nature. Data from a NOAA buoy near the Malaspina Foreland taken from 1995 to 2001 indicates that the average wave height in that area of the Gulf of Alaska is 1.5 m, and that the average maximum wave ... ................
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