" Beach Erosion Studies " 



Summaries of completed cooperative study reports on Pemberton 

 Point to Cape Cod Canal, Massachusetts, Weymouth, Massachusetts 

 at Wessagussett Beach; Orange County, California from Newport Bay 

 to San Mateo Creek; Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania; 

 North Shore of Cape Cod from Cape Cod Canal to Province town, 

 Massachusetts^ and South Shore of Long Island from Fire Island 

 Inlet to Montauk Point, New York, are presented. Listings of 

 all completed cooperative study reports and those studies still 

 in progress are also presented. 



Volume 15 - July 1961 



"A Sand Feeder for Use in Laboratory Littoral Transport 

 Studies " 



An apparatus for feeding sand to a test beach in a laboratory 

 wave tank involving alongshore sand transport due to obliquity 

 of wave approach is described and illustrated. 



" Foreign Coastal Engineering and Related Research " 



The interest of the Beach Erosion Board in serving as a focal 

 point for information in the field of coastal engineering and 

 related research from foreign countries is outlined. 



" Soviet Scientific Progress in Coastal Oceanography " 



Programs, organization and publication media of agencies and 

 institutions in the U.S.S.R. dealing with coastal problems 

 are outlined, and their known publications listed in a 

 bibliography of 116 items. 



"New Soviet Manual on Coastal Engineering " 



A Soviet Manual, "Technical Instructions for Determining 

 Effect of Waves on Maritime and River Constructions and Shores 

 Construction Norm 92-60", dated 21 April 1961, issued by the 

 State Committee on Structural Works, U.S.S.R. Council of 

 Ministers, Moscow, is described and contents outlined. 



" Ice Flow Patterns Along the Delaware Coast " 



A series of photographs of drifting ice floes along the 

 Delaware coast, depicting some interesting flow patterns in 

 the nearshore zone of the Atlantic Ocean, are presented. 



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