CONTENTS 



FIGURES 



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1 Jennette's Pier, Nags Head, North Carolina 10 



2 City Pier, Ventnor, New Jersey H 



3 Profiles at Jennette's Pier 13 



4 Profiles at Ventnor City Pier 14 



5 Tractor-mounted, suspended- sand sampler in operation on pier. . . 15 



6 Footplate and intake nozzle in operation 17 



7 Three collection-decanting tanks. 19 



8 Suspended- sediment sample data sheet 21 



9 Distribution of suspended-sediment concentrations 24 



10 Median and coarse sand sizes distributed by water depth 25 



11 Median and coarse sand sizes distributed by nozzle elevation. . . 26 



12 Median and coarse sand sizes distributed by distance from 



breaker position 27 



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13 Distribution of sampling positions, relative to breaker 



position . 



14 Distribution of water depths at sampling positions. ....... 31 



15 Distribution of nozzle elevations ......... 32 



16 Shoreward increase in concentration across the breaker 



position 33 



17 Lack of relation between concentration and local water depth. . . 35 



18 Decrease in concentration with elevation at Ventnor for all 



samples 36 



19 Decrease in concentration with elevation at Ventnor for three 



selected sample sets 37 



20 Decrease in concentration with elevation at Nags Head for two 



selected samples 38 



21 Distributions of wave heights during tests at Ventnor and Nags 



Head 39 



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