Are Great Lakes Shorelines Substantially Different from Ocean Shorelines?
Because many Stabilizer installations have succeeded on the Great Lakes, people often ask if beach dynamics are substantially different between lake and ocean environments. In general, researchers do not make basic distinctions between the two environments. For example engineering theories that are applied to ocean shorelines are similarly applied to Great Lakes environments. Additionally, coastal structures elicit the same shorelines responses on both lakes and oceans. Groins behave like groins in either environment, as do breakwaters, jetties, piers, revetments, seawalls, etc. In fact, the primary cause of erosion on the Great Lakes, dredged and jettied harbor structures, is also the primary cause of beach erosion along ocean shorelines. Although the processes are the same, some differences naturally exist between any two environments. There may be more similarity between a given ocean and lake shoreline, for example, than between two different sections of ocean coastline. Some of th
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