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TP 78-4 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



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4. TITLE (and Subline) 



GEOMETRY OF PROFILES ACROSS INNER CONTINENTAL 

 SHELVES OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTS OF 

 THE UNITED STATES 



5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Technical Paper 



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7. AUTHORfsJ 



Craig H. Everts 



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9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-CP) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



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D31194 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



April 1978 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



92 



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Atlantic coast Gulf coast 



Bathymetric profiles Inner Continental Shelf 



Beach Evaluation Program 



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Along most of the U.S. east and gulf coasts, bottom profiles extending 

 over the Inner Continental Shelves normal from the coast display a character- 

 istic two- sector shape. Near the coast, the shorefaae profile sector is steep 

 and concave-up; the seaward r(2mp sector is planar with a gradual slope away 

 from the coast. As part of the Beach Evaluation Program (BEP) at the Coastal 

 Engineering Research Center, 9 profiles extending from the coast 30.5 kilo- 

 meters (19 miles) seaward at each of 49 localities were averaged to 



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