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GROINS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 



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Bibliography with indexes. 



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James H. Balsillie 

 Richard 0. Bruno 



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April 19 72 



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A groin is a shore protective structure built Cusually perpendicular to the 

 shore) to trap sedimentary material or to retard erosion of the shore. Of all the 

 shore protective structures used by coastal engineers, the groin is the most difficult 

 to design - functionally and structurally. Because this complexity of design was 

 not recognized until recently, many early groin installations were failures. CERC 

 supports a continuing research program devoted to gaining a better understanding of 

 groins. This bibliography evolved from the groin research program. 



About 460 articles published since 1900 on groins and groin-type structures are 

 presented in this bibliography. Annotations accompany each bibliographic entry where 

 possible. Indexes of authors, titles, and subjects are included to aid the researcher, 

 Unavailable literature such as foreign articles, although not annotated, are included 

 as entries in both the annotated section and the indexes. 



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