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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

The foreshore / backshore study of raw material exploitation mentioned above is a good example (Hiscock and Allen 2000).

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

This study focused on seasonal changes in vegetation of the backshore and primary dune zones.

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

Equilibrium can be restored only if the foreshore is raised by debris removed from the freshly exposed backshore.

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.