Barrier Breaching Processes and Barrier Spit Breach, Stone Lagoon, California
INTRODUCTION - Stone-Lagoon0002
BREACH PROCESSES
BREACH SUSCEPTIBILITY INDEX
HUMBOLDT LAGOONS
MARCH 2002 BREACH OF STONE LAGOON
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION - Stone-Lagoon0007
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - Stone-Lagoon0008
REFERENCES - Stone-Lagoon0009
Figure 1. Mecox Pond, breached the morning of February 14, 1998, (photographs by N. Kraus, afternoon of February 14).
Figure 2. Little Pikes Inlet (barrier island breach), Long Island, New York, shortly after opening
Figure 3. Location map, Stone Lagoon, northern California.
Figure 4. Mean annual rainfall by month (data obtained from Desert Water Institute;
Figure 6. Stone Lagoon, looking northeast, December 1999 (photograph by G. Todoroff).
Figure 8. Stone Lagoon spit breach, looking west, March 16, 2002 (photograph by G. Todoroff).
Figure 10. Stone Lagoon breach, looking east, March 18, 2002 (photograph by A. Militello).
Figure 11. Time sequence (a-d) of vertical aerial photographs, Stone Lagoon breach, with Pacific Ocean at top of pictures]
Figure 12. Stone Lagoon: contours of dry perimeters at four sampling times within 1 month after breaching.
Table 1. Representative values of the breach susceptibility index
Table 2. Parameters controlling spit geometry and evolution, and the associated process (from Kraus 1999)
Table 3. Photograph availability, year 2002, local time
Stone-Lagoon
INTRODUCTION - Stone-Lagoon0002
BREACH PROCESSES
BREACH SUSCEPTIBILITY INDEX
HUMBOLDT LAGOONS
MARCH 2002 BREACH OF STONE LAGOON
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION - Stone-Lagoon0007
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - Stone-Lagoon0008
REFERENCES - Stone-Lagoon0009
Figure 1. Mecox Pond, breached the morning of February 14, 1998, (photographs by N. Kraus, afternoon of February 14).
Figure 2. Little Pikes Inlet (barrier island breach), Long Island, New York, shortly after opening
Figure 3. Location map, Stone Lagoon, northern California.
Figure 4. Mean annual rainfall by month (data obtained from Desert Water Institute;
Figure 6. Stone Lagoon, looking northeast, December 1999 (photograph by G. Todoroff).
Figure 8. Stone Lagoon spit breach, looking west, March 16, 2002 (photograph by G. Todoroff).
Figure 10. Stone Lagoon breach, looking east, March 18, 2002 (photograph by A. Militello).
Figure 11. Time sequence (a-d) of vertical aerial photographs, Stone Lagoon breach, with Pacific Ocean at top of pictures]
Figure 12. Stone Lagoon: contours of dry perimeters at four sampling times within 1 month after breaching.
Table 1. Representative values of the breach susceptibility index
Table 2. Parameters controlling spit geometry and evolution, and the associated process (from Kraus 1999)
Table 3. Photograph availability, year 2002, local time
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