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1 digital object.

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Matsumoto, Hironori; Young, Adam P. (2022). Data from: Quantitative regional observations of the geological influence on primary sandy beaches. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0B27VF2

Description

Geological features such as underlying bedrock and coarse sediments (e.g. gravels) are known to influence sandy beach morphology, however existing observations are generally limited to small areas and/or qualitative observations. Using mobile terrestrial LiDAR collected twice yearly from 2017 to 2021, this study quantitatively examined the influence of intermittently and/or semi-permanently exposed gravels and bedrock on seasonal subaerial beach elevations along ~40 km of coast in northern San Diego County, California. The dataset includes mapped beach elevations, and gravel/bedrock locations in geotiff format.

Date Collected

• 2017-10-01 to 2021-03-31

Date Issued

• 2022

Principal Investigator

• Young, Adam P.

Researcher

• Matsumoto, Hironori

Funding

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (W912HZ1920020), and the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Natural Resources Division Oceanography Program (C19E0026).

Topics

• Bedrock
• Geological influence
• Gravel
• Sandy beach

Formats

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• data
• text

Language

• English

Identifier

Identifier: Adam P. Young: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-9528

Identifier: Hironori Matsumoto: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4637-7781

Related Resources

Primary associated publication

• Hironori Matsumoto, Adam P. Young (2022). Quantitative regional observations of gravel and bedrock influence on beach morphologies. Geomorphology. Volume 419, 108491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108491

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• Image source: Erik Jepsen. Copyright ©️ the Board of Regents of the University of California.