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Jetty Spurs at Coastal Inlets for Reduction of Navigation Channel Shoaling
Figure 2. Example of spur construction at Siuslaw River, OR
Figure 3. Sediment-laden longshore currents moving around Gray's Harbor north jetty
Figure 5. Examples of jetty spurs
Table 1. Existing Spur Jetty Installations in United States
Figure 6. Seafloor slopes adjacent to jetties
Figure 7. Bathymetric control of waves creating counterclockwise circulation near Grays Harbor north jetty
PHYSICAL MODEL EXPERIMENTS OF SPURS
Figure 8. Spur length (S) to distance from spur to local average shoreline (L) ratio plotted with shoreline response
Figure 10. CIRP idealized inlet physical model
Figure 11. Dye movement of wave-generated and tidal currents approaching jetty for a 2.4-m, 10-sec wave and maximum flood current of 1.4 m/sec in channel
Figure 13. Detailed velocity fields upcoast of dual jetties for 11-sec, 3-m waves with maximum flood current in channel
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