CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC [SI] 7 



SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS •• • ^ 



I INTRODUCTION ^ 



II FIELD DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURES 9 



1. Piers and Profiles ^ 



2. Pump Sampler. ^^ 



3. Sand Ripple Effects j° 



4. Sample Collection and Processing 18 



5. Data Collected ^^ 



6. Wave Data 



Ill DATA ANALYSIS ^2 



1. Concentration 



2. Sediment Size ^^ 



3. Sample Position • ■^^ 



4. Wave Conditions . ^^ 



5. Sources of Scatter ^^ 



IV POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS ^^ 



1. Coastal Engineering ^^ 



2. Longshore Transport Example ^° 



3. Future Studies. .... ....... 



V CONCLUSIONS FROM FIELD STUDY 47 



LITERATURE CITED ^^ 



APPENDIX ^, 



A COMPILATION OF SUSPENDED- SEDIMENT DATA ^^ 



B BOTTOM PROFILES FOR CITY PIER, VENTNOR, NEW JERSEY, AND 



JENNETTE'S PIER, NAGS HEAD, NORTH CAROLINA 66 



C TIDE CURVES ^'' 



D TYPICAL PARTICLE-SIZE CURVES 80 



TABLE 



Size difference between suspended and bottom samples 28 



