16. Bascom (1959) characterized the variation in grain-size distribu- 

 tions across several Pacific Coast beaches. Based on a reference sample 

 located in the midtide beach face, the trend was for samples landward of this 

 reference point on the berm to be coarser and then to become finer into the 

 dune area. In the offshore direction, samples at the plunge point (just sea- 

 ward of the backwash, shore break interaction area) were the coarsest, with a 

 fining of samples with increasing depth and distance offshore. The largest 

 grain sizes are found at the areas of highest turbulence, with decrease in 

 size with decreasing turbulence. The mean size distribution at the FRF gener- 

 ally fits this model. The mean grain size becomes progressively finer in the 

 offshore direction. Samples were not consistently collected at the plunge 

 point at the base of the foreshore for this experiment, so the coarsest sedi- 

 ment may have been missed. 



17. A somewhat anomalous condition exists at the FRF in that the coars- 

 est material measured was located at Station 3 in the vicinity of the base of 

 the dune rather than the top of the summer berm as found by Bascom (1959). 

 The mean of the dune samples also was coarser than some of the beach samples , 

 possibly because the dunes were man-made in the 1930' s by a Work Projects 

 Administration project and were not solely a product of eolian transport. 



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