CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) 5 



SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS 6 



I INTRODUCTION 7 



II BRUUN'S METHOD 7 



III SEAWARD LIMIT OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT 8 



IV COMPUTATION OF LONG-TERM EROSION RATES 10 



V SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 12 



LITERATURE CITED . 13 



APPENDIX TRENDS AND VARIABILITY OF YEARLY MEAN SEA LEVEL 15 



TABLE 



Calculation of profile approximation 10 



FIGURES 



1 Similarity of profiles, Bruun's method 8 



2 Successive approximations to fit exponential curve to 



profile data 11 



