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Scarps from Replenished Sands
- "Also, replenished beaches do not erode the way the natural beaches do. Wave action on renourished beaches often results not in the relatively smooth slope of a natural beach but in rather steep scarps cut into the edge of the sand. When the project at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, began eroding, for example, waves cut a four-to-eight-foot scarp along the shoreline. Children could jump down to the water's edge, but they often had a hard time returning to the dry beach." - excerpt from the book, Against the Tide, by Cornelia Dean, Columbia University Press, 1999, pg. 115.
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