| Title | Catastrophic beach sand losses due to erosion from predicted future sea level rise (0.5–1.0 m), based on increasing submarine accommodation spaces in the high-wave-energy coast of the Pacific Northwest, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, USA |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Peterson, Curt D., Don J. Pettit, Kara Kingen, Sandy Vanderburgh, and Chuck Rosenfeld |
| Secondary Title | Marine Geology |
| Volume | 439 |
| Number | 106555 |
| Date Published | 2021, Sep. |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | climate, coastal hazards, coastal processes, erosion, Littoral, Nehalem Bay, Netarts Bay, sea level, Tillamook Bay |
| Notes | At some point in the next hundred years, long walks on a natural beach will be more of a fantasy than a reality. Areas in the inner continental shelf and in estuaries will become sand sinks, or holding areas for beach sand as sea level rise (SLR) covers beach sands. “The existing subcell beach sand volumes and computed new beach sand supplies (rivers and longshore transport) were subtracted from the estimated sand volumes lost to submarine accommodation spaces to establish potential beach sand deficits from near-future SLR. Of the 26 surveyed active-beaches, some 60% and 80% (by length) are predicted to be lost, respectively, from the 0.5 m and 1.0 m SLR or equivalent littoral sand sedimentation in submarine accommodation spaces. Projected losses reach 90% for all PNW beaches (~900 km total length) from 1.0 m SLR” (from the Abstract). |
| URL | https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/36497 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106555 |
| Series Title | Marine Geology |
