AVON-BY-THE-SEA 



PROFILE 232 

 SHARK RIVER INLET 



BELMAR 



PROFILE 244 



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 OCEAN 



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2 KM 



MANASQUAN INLET 



Figure 1. Project area, the New Jersey coastline 

 from Sea Bright to Manasquan 



following relationship, in which the depth h is an exponential function of 

 the offshore distance x and an equilibrium shape coefficient A . 



h = Ax z 



(1) 



This relationship describes the active surf zone between the shoreline and 

 the breaker line. The equation has been shown by Dean (1977) to satis- 

 factorily represent a wide variety of beach profiles along the U.S. Atlantic 

 and Gulf Coasts. The primary limitation of Equation 1 is that offshore 

 features such as bars or troughs cannot be represented. 



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