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Sand dune stabilization
Sand dune stabilization is a coastal management practice designed to prevent erosion of sand dunes. Sand dunes are common features of shoreline and desert environments. Dunes provide habitat for highly specialized plants and animals, including rare and endangered species. They can protect beaches from erosion and recruit sand to eroded beaches. Dunes are threatened by human activity, both intentional and unintentional (see sand theft and sand mining).
Carbonate de calcium
Le carbonate de calcium (CaCO) est composé d'ions carbonate (CO) et d'ions calcium (Ca). Cette substance blanche a une masse molaire de 100,1 g/mol. Le carbonate de calcium est le composant majeur des calcaires comme la craie, mais également du marbre. C'est aussi le constituant principal des coquilles d'animaux marins, du corail et des escargots, ainsi que des coquilles d'œufs des amniotes (à l'exception bien sûr des mammifères thériens dont les œufs, internes, sont sans coquille). Ca + ⇌ .
Atmosphère planétaire
vignette|Composants principaux du Système solaire (échelle non respectée). vignette|Graphique représentant la vitesse de libération en fonction de la température de surface de certains objets du Système solaire et montrant quels gaz sont retenus dans leur atmosphère. Les objets sont dessinés à l’échelle et leurs points de données sont représentés par les points noirs au milieu. En astronomie, une atmosphère planétaire est l'enveloppe externe gazeuse d'un corps planétaire (planète, planète naine, satellite), constituée principalement de gaz neutres ou ionisés (à l'état plasma).
Coastal morphodynamics
Coastal morphodynamics (i.e. the dynamics of beach morphology) refers to the study of the interaction and adjustment of the seafloor topography and fluid hydrodynamic processes, seafloor morphologies and sequences of change dynamics involving the motion of sediment. Hydrodynamic processes include those of waves, tides and wind-induced currents. While hydrodynamic processes respond instantaneously to morphological change, morphological change requires the redistribution of sediment.
Coastal development hazards
A coastal development hazard is something that affects the natural environment by human activities and products. As coasts become more developed, the vulnerability component of the equation increases as there is more value at risk to the hazard. The likelihood component of the equation also increases in terms of there being more value on the coast so a higher chance of hazardous situation occurring. Fundamentally humans create hazards with their presence.
Coastal sediment supply
Coastal sediment supply is the transport of sediment to the beach environment by both fluvial and aeolian transport. While aeolian transport plays a role in the overall sedimentary budget for the coastal environment, it is paled in comparison to the fluvial supply which makes up 95% of sediment entering the ocean. When sediment reaches the coast it is then entrained by longshore drift and littoral cells until it is accreted upon the beach or dunes. While it is acknowledged that storm systems are the driver behind coastal erosion.