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BEACH. The sea shore. (q. v.)

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Key infrastructure facilities, including municipal utility buildings and residential structures, are located in the backshore of Iqaluit's main beach.

Exposure to coastal hazards in a rapidly expanding northern urban centre, Iqaluit, Nunavut

All the beaches have narrow backshore and are devoid of dunes.

Monthly and seasonal variation in beach profile along the coast of Tiruchendur and Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, India/Variaciones mensuales y estacionales del perfil de playa en la costa de Tiruchendur y Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, India

Esta migracion, y consecuente retroceso de la linea de costa, causa erosion en las playas posterior y anterior (backshore y foreshore) y deposicion en las playas interior y exterior (inshore y offshore).

Variacion de la linea de litoral entre Puerto Chicama y Puemape, La Libertad, Peru (1961-2006)

In the Willandra this pattern is apparent when stone artefact assemblages from the lake foreshore are compared to those from the backshore (Hiscock and Allen 2000) and such continuity is not unique to Australia.

The archaeology of Mungo and the Willandra Lakes: looking back, looking forward

-- Seasonal variation in vegetative cover, species richness, species composition and species importance were compared in the backshore and primary dunes topographic zones at a dune protection area and an unprotected site on South Padre Island, Texas, from May 2004 to April 2005.

Seasonal variation in dune vegetation at South Padre Island, Texas

Dunes weren't needed for protection in this area because of the naturally high backshore, so they weren't included in the Corps's project.

Community Pines for beach season

Due to continuing submergence, a small section of backshore, previously too high to have been exposed, becomes subject to wave action.

Tides and their seminal impact on the geology, geography, history, and socio-economics of the Bay of Fundy, eastern Canada

The reverse is theoretically true; the beach profile will migrate downwards and lakeward in response to accretion of beach grade sediment in the backshore through landward transport of near-shore bottom sediment.

Shore protection and coastal change on the Lake Michigan shore: Duck Lake, Orchard Beach State Park, and Onekama, Michigan

In the 1980s, the diversity of plant species on the backshore and primary dunes was declining.