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Land reclamation

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Land reclamation is used in general to describe the process of making lands suitable for more intensive use by such means as cultivation, drainage, revegetation, irrigation, chemical or physical modification, or the like. Reclamation efforts may be concerned: with rehabilitation of areas strip mined or areas of coastal dunes mined for heavy mineral content; with improvement of rainfall-deficient areas by irrigation; or with removal of detrimental constituents from alkaline or saline lands, and so on. But in the coastal zone, reclamation usually signifies exclusion of marine or estuarine waters from littoral or riparian lands formerly periodically or permanently inundated.

Reclamation of land in the coastal zone may involve: raising the level of land above the highest anticipated water level, or exclusion of water by diking or barrages (or the like) and draining.

Raising Land Level

Reclamation may be accomplished by dumping on the site such materials as quarry waste, excavation spoil,...

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Chapman, D.M. (1982). Land reclamation . In: Beaches and Coastal Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30843-1_256

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