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Introduction

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Three papers presented here are concerned with theoretical and laboratory studies of sediment transport due to wave action, and the other is concerned with observations of sediment transport in the field.

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McDowell, D.M. (1984). Introduction. In: Denness, B. (eds) Seabed Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4958-4_20

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