Sandy Beaches #1

• Donax

• Emerita

• Polinices

Area between the highest and lowest tide

• backshore

• foreshore

• offshore

Ability of water to creep or rise up other materials

• pore space

• capillary action

• thixotropy

Area between sand grains

• pore space

• dunes

• thixotropy

Area away from shore, underwater

• foreshore

• backshore

• offshore

Area to prevent erosion

• backshore

• drift line

• dunes

Area of beach hardly ever wet, above high tide

• offshore

• foreshore

• backshore

Ability of a solid to become liquid when agitated or stirred

• pore space

• capillary action

• thixotropy

Place water is at that moment

• beach face

• foreshore

• backshore

Debris left on beach by last high tide buffet line for scavengers

• foreshore

• dunes

• drift line