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MR 82-2 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO, 



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4. TITLE (and Subtitle) 



LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF BEACH NOURISHMENT ON THE 

 BENTHIC FAUNA OF PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA 



5. TYPE OF REPORT a PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfo; 



J.K. Culter and S. Mahadevan 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfsJ 



DACW72-79-C-0026 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Mote Marine Laboratory 

 1600 City Island Park 

 Sarasota, Florida 33577 



G31266 



II. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-CE) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



January 1982 



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13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



94 



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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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Beach nourishment effects 

 Benthic fauna 



Panama City Beach, ^Florida 

 Surface sediments 



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The long-term effects of beach nourishment on the benthic infauna and sur- 

 face sediments of Panama City beaches were investigated. Forty-seven stations 

 located on nine transects between West Pass and Philips Inlet, and two nourish- 

 ment borrow sites were sampled in November-December 1979 and May 1980. The 

 data collected were compared to prenourishment base-line information collected 

 by Saloman (1976) . 



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