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OVERWASH PROCESSES AND FOREDUXE ECOLOGY, NAUSET 

 SPIT, MASSACHUSETTS 



Final Report 



PERFORMING ORG REPORT NUMBER 



Robert E. Zaremba 

 Stephen P. Leatherman 



Massachusetts Audubon Society, Hummock Pond Road, 

 Nantucket, Massachusetts 02354; University of 

 MassachusetLs, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 



Agreement No. 



W74 ROV CERC 77-51 



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Environmental Impact 

 Research Program, 

 Work Unit 31533 



DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 



US Army Corps of Engineers 



Washington, DC 20314-1000 



REPORT DATE 



| Dece mber 19 84 



JBER OF 



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US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station 



Environmental Laboratory 



PO Box 631, Vicksburg, Mississippi 391S0-0631 



Unclassified 



Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



This report was prepared under a cooperative agreement between the US Army 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center and the US Department of the Interior, 

 National Park Service. 



Available from National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, 

 Springfield, Virginia 22161. 



19 KEY WORDS fConf.i 



Barrier beach 

 Beach grasses 

 Dunes 



Marsh grasses 

 Massachusetts 

 Overwash 



10. ABSTRACT (Canthtw* en r»«rw »iio 1/ .ijc-.^tr^ aid Idemtl? by bloc* numkof) 



Many US east coast barrier beaches are retreating landward with sea 

 level rise. This study provides quantitative information on the natural 

 dynamics c ' barrier beaches along the North Atlantic coast. A geobotanical 

 approach was utilized, which involved a detailed investigation of the physical 

 transport processes, particularly overwash, and the vegetative response 

 range of information was collected during different time frames, incJ-acTini 

 short-term field measurements of overwash surges and vegetative Quadrat 



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