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| 01.EP_0033_DE_SH_01.jpg Breaking wave, Kuilima, Hawaii. (D.J. Easterbrook) |
02.EP_0054_DR_SH_02.jpg Decrease in wavelength as waves approach a shoreline, Olympic Peninsula, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
03.EP_0040_JS_SH_03.jpg Wave breaking on rocky coast, Mussel Rock, San Francisco Peninsula, CA. (J. Shelton) |
04.EP_0041_JS_SH_04.jpg Wave refraction, Sakonnet Point, RI. (J. Shelton) |
05.EP_0042_JS_SH_05.jpg Wave refraction and sand bars, Cape Cod, Mass. (J. Shelton) |
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| 06.EP_0043_JS_SH_06.jpg Wave refraction and sand bars, Cape Cod, Mass. (J. Shelton) |
07.EP_0055_DR_SH_07.jpg Wave refraction around island in Willapa Bay, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
08.EP_0044_JS_SH_08.jpg Beach cusps, Sonoran Coast. (J. Shelton) |
09.EP_0056_DR_SH_09.jpg Beach ridge near Florence, OR. (D.A. Rahm) |
10.EP_0057_DR_SH_10.jpg Sea stack, Cannon Beach, OR. (D.A. Rahm) |
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| 11.EP_0045_JS_SH_11.jpg Wave-cut platform and sea cliff, Bolinas Point north of Golden Gate, CA. (J. Shelton) |
12.EP_0034_DE_SH_12.jpg Wave-cut platform and sea cliff, Sucia Island, WA. (D.J. Easterbrook) |
13.EP_0058_DR_SH_13.jpg Sea stacks, Bandon, OR. (D.A. Rahm) |
14.EP_0059_DR_SH_14.jpg Sea stack, Monterey, CA. (D.A. Rahm) |
15.EP_0060_DR_SH_15.jpg Sea stack near Cannon Beach, OR. (D.A. Rahm) |
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| 16.EP_0046_JS_SH_16.jpg Waves approaching a shoreline obliquely, NW of Oceanside, CA. (J. Shelton) |
17.EP_0061_DR_SH_17.jpg Waves approaching a shoreline obliquely, Oregon coast. (D.A. Rahm) |
18.EP_0047_JS_SH_18.jpg Waves approaching a shoreline obliquely, Florence, OR. (J. Shelton) |
19.EP_0062_DR_SH_19.jpg Shipwreck on a sand bar, Grays Harbor, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
20.EP_0005_USDA_SH_20.jpg Spit, infra-red (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture) |
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| 21.EP_0063_DR_SH_21.jpg Spit building into Semiahmo Bay, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
22.EP_0035_DE_SH_22.jpg Spit growing into Lummi Bay, WA. (D.J. Easterbrook) |
23.EP_0064_DR_SH_23.jpg Ediz Hook, Port Angeles, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
24.EP_0065_DR_SH_24.jpg Ediz Hook, Port Angeles, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
25.EP_0048_JS_SH_25.jpg Groins trapping sand along a beach near Cap May, NJ. (J. Shelton) |
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| 26.EP_0049_JS_SH_26.jpg Groins trapping sand along shoreline of a baymouth bar, Shipbottom, NJ. (J. Shelton) |
27.EP_0050_JS_SH_27.jpg Hooked spit, Cape Cod, Mass. (J. Shelton) |
28.EP_0066_DR_SH_28.jpg Complex spit, Dungeness spit, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
29.EP_0067_DR_SH_29.jpg Complex spit, Dungeness spit, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
30.EP_0068_DR_SH_30.jpg Spit about to become a baymouth bar, Puget Sound, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
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| 31.EP_0069_DR_SH_31.jpg Spit about to become a baymouth bar, Puget Sound, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
32.EP_0051_JS_SH_32.jpg Baymouth bar, south of Eureka, CA. (J. Shelton) |
33.EP_0070_DR_SH_33.jpg Beach cusps in spit at Bolinas Bay, CA. (D.A. Rahm) |
34.EP_0052_JS_SH_34.jpg Beach building seaward behind a breakwater, Santa Monica, CA. (J. Shelton) |
35.EP_0071_DR_SH_35.jpg Spit building seaward toward an island as a result of the wave refraction pattern set up by the island. (D.A. Rahm) |
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| 36.EP_0072_DR_SH_36.jpg Tombolo. (D.A. Rahm) |
37.EP_0073_DR_SH_37.jpg Spit building toward Frost Island, WA, a future tombolo. (D.A. Rahm) |
38.EP_0074_DR_SH_38.jpg Spit building toward Frost Island, WA, a future tombolo. (D.A. Rahm) |
39.EP_0075_DR_SH_39.jpg A tombolo, Puget Sound, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
40.EP_0076_DR_SH_40.jpg A tombolo, Lopez Island, WA. (D.A. Rahm) |
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| 41.EP_0053_JS_SH_41.jpg Marine terrace along the California coast. (J. Shelton) |
42.EP_0054_JS_SH_42.jpg Gorda marine terrace. (J. Shelton) |
43.EP_0055_JS_SH_43.jpg Gorda marine terrace. (J. Shelton) |
44.EP_0056_JS_SH_44.jpg Marine terraces, San Clemente Island, CA. (J. Shelton) |
45.EP_0074_KH_SH_45.jpg Terraces of pluvial Lake Bonneville, Buffalo Bay, Great Salt Lake, UT. (K. Hamblin) |
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| 46.EP_0075_KH_SH_46.jpg Terraces of pluvial Lake Bonneville, Point of the Mountain, Great Salt Lake, UT. (K. Hamblin) |
47.EP_0036_DE_SH_47.jpg Marine terrace truncating a fault (between light/dark rocks), Cape Blanco. (D.J. Easterbrook) |
48.EP_0037_DE_SH_48.jpg Marine terrace sediments truncating tilted Tertiary sandstone, Shore Acres, OR. (D.J. Easterbrook) |
49.EP_0057_JS_SH_49.jpg Marine terrace and modern wavecut platform, California coast. (J. Shelton) |
50.EP_0076_KH_SH_50.jpg Marine terrace near Monterey, CA. (K. Hamblin) |
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