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An inclinometer for measuring beach slopes

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Directions are given for constructing and using an accurate, compact, portable inclinometer useful to investigators of intertidal thalassopsammon, fresh and brackish water beach mesopsammon, and to geologists measuring beach profiles. This apparatus has shown that the New England beaches on which it has been used have constant and characteristic slopes that are only temporarily affected by meteorological disturbances.

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  1. D. J. Zinn

    Present address: Department of Zoology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA

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  1. Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

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Communicated by G. L. Voss, Miami

Partly supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (GB-4116). Contribution No. 79, Systematics-Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543.

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Zinn, D.J. An inclinometer for measuring beach slopes. Marine Biol. 2, 132–134 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347009

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