In the intervening several thousand years, ocean currents, or littoral drift, filled in space with sand.
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Longshore or littoral drift is the transportation of sediments along the coast at an angle to the shoreline.
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But he does more than write on the details of littoral drift, inlet dynamics, overwash processes and dune migration.
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That sand has been deposited elsewhere, either offshore or has actually moved, we expect, west along with the littoral drift.
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"There is no question that until you have the entire beach constructed, you're not having littoral drift work as a system, " he said.
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But, the revised theory goes, if the beach is " pre-filled, " then the river of sand, or " littoral drift, " won't be interrupted.
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Here the same process is at work, only the littoral drift is again south, but along the western shore, pushing the sand and sand spits eastward.
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The beach and state park were created by the interruption of the littoral drift of sand along the coast caused by the navigation structure which was installed to protect the entrance to the harbor.
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The natural movement of the littoral along the coast is called the littoral drift . Biologically, the ready availability of water enables a greater variety of plant and animal life, and particularly the formation of extensive wetlands.
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In 1960 the Department of Public Works of Canada requested the National Research Council ( Canada ) devise a means of reducing sediment deposition in the harbour entrance caused by the littoral drift on a bar in front of the entrance.
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