Published October 1977
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Discussion Paper
Recent erosion in the San Gabriel Mountains
- Creators
- Brown, William M., III
- Taylor, Brent D.
Chicago
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Abstract
Recently the Environmental Quality Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and the Shore Processes Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography have undertaken a joint project to study the natural sediment budget in coastal southern California. This budget includes inland erosion which under natural conditions provides sand sized material to nourish the beaches along the shoreline. The San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles are an important natural source of sand for beach nourishment. However, the intense urbanization along the base of these mountains have required the advent of extensive flood control structures which significantly reduce the natural transport of sediments from this geomorphic unit to the shoreline.
Additional Information
© 1977 American Society of Civil Engineers. Preprinted for ASCE Fall Convention, San Francisco, October 17-21, 1977.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 49858
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- Environmental Quality Laboratory
- Series Name
- ASCE preprint
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 3024
- Other Numbering System Name
- Environmental Quality Laboratory
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- A-49