Annotated Bibliography: 12

Leonardi, N., Ganju, N. K., & Fagherazzi, S. (2016). A linear relationship between wave power and erosion determines salt-marsh resilience to violent storms and hurricanes. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, 113(1), 64-68. doi:10.1073/pnas.1510095112

Leonardi and Fagherazzi looked into how when wave energy increases, salt marsh response to wind waves remain lineral. Salt marsh losses have been documents worldwide because of land use change, wave erosion, and sea-level rise. They looked into how there is a general formulation for salt marsh erosion to historical wave climates for the last two decades. They have to the conclusion that salt marshes seem more susceptible to variations in mean wave energy rather than changes in the extremes. 

Thornton, E. B., Sallenger, A., Sesto, J. C., Egley, L., McGee, T., & Parsons, R. (2006). Sand mining impacts on long-term dune erosion in southern Monterey Bay. Marine Geology, 229(1/2), 45-58. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2006.02.005

In this article, the authors discussed about the Southern Monterey Bay, and how it was the most intensively mined shoreline in the United States during the period of 1906 until 1990. This is because the mines were closed, which goes to their hypotheses that mining caused coastal erosion. They averages that the yearly averages amount of mined sand between 1940 and 1984 was 128,000 m3/year. The authors conducted a researched the impact of sand mining and erosion. In regard to marine process, erosion is defined as the recession of the top edge of the dune.