Abstract
The Hammam Lif coast (North-East of Tunisia) suffered from erosion mainly after the storm that damaged the zone in 1981. To protect it, eight shore-parallel breakwaters were built. The present study is interested in presenting the effect of the protection works on the coastline behavior by using aerial photographs geo-referenced by the digital photogrammetric method and empirical relationships. The successive breakwaters made a general accretion with formation of seven tombolos and salient. The response of the coast to these structures was related to the characteristics of these latter (length, distance to coast, and spacing). The effectiveness of such protection works is shown by the evaluation of the accretion areas formed behind them. The breakwaters which are the longest, less distant from the shoreline, and less spaced formed well-developed tombolos. Whereas, the structures which are short, very far from the coastline, and far from each other caused very small tombolos and even a salient.
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تعرض شاطئ منطقة حمام الأنف المتواجد بخليج تونس، شمال غرب البلاد التونسية٬ إلى التعرية البحرية خصوصا بعد العاصفة التي أحلت بالجهة سنة 1981. لذلك، تم بناء ثمانية كاسرات أمواج موازية للشاطئ قصد حمايته اهتمت هذه الدراسة ببيان تأثير هذه الكاسرات في تطور الشريط الساحلي بالمنطقة وذلك بالاستعانة بصور جوية معالجة رقميا وبتطبيق معادلات نظرية. تمكنت كاسرات الأمواج المتتالية من إحداث ترسبات هامة خاصة وراءها، وقد كان تجاوب الشاطئ مرتبطا بالخاصيات التي تميز هذه الكاسرات مثل طولها،المسافة التي تفصلها عن الشاطئ والمسافة التي تفصل كل كاسرة عن التي تليها. إذ استنتجنا أن الكاسرات الأكثر طولا والأكثر اقترابا من الشاطئ ومن بعضها البعض كونت خلفها مساحات هامة من الترسبات، في حين أن المساحات الصغيرة تكونت خلف كاسرات الأمواج التي تتميز بقصرها، شدة ابتعادها عن الشاطئ وطول المسافة الفاصلة بين كاسرتين متتاليتين
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Saïdi, H.B., Souissi, R. & Zargouni, F. Impact of shore-parallel breakwaters on the microtidal coast of Hammam-Lif (North-East of Tunisia). Arab J Geosci 5, 345–352 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-010-0223-1
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