An extensive offshore sand bar field in the western Baltic Sea  

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Exon, N.F.

Abstract

In the breaker zone in southeastern Gelting Bay, east of Flensburg in north Germany, a field of up to 20 parallel relatively small-scale offshore sand bars has developed. The bars, ~lhich consist of fine to medium grained sand derived from till, are flat and asymmetrical and their steeper sides generally face the shore. Crests are as much as 1000 m long; Vlavelengths vary from 7 m inshore to 70 offshore, and heights correspondingly from 5 to 70 cm. The bars are fonned by waves driven by northwesterly tvinds, and are probably destroyed during severe storms and rebuilt as they wane.

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• marine

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• Earth Sciences

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1974-01-01T00:00:00

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Record 1974/078

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[54.0, 56.0, 9.0, 11.0]

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