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a bit of pollution and damage

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The Imperial Beach Field Trip
Address: 1680 Seacoast Dr, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
Supplies: Acid, hand lenses, stopwatches
Dr. Sasha Carter created parts of this field trip packet.
This is a part of the state that has in some sense seen more than its share of human impact. While the international border cuts through our field area, and as a result of evolving trade and immigration

policy along with the general mess

of human development there has been quite a bit of pollution and damage to the beach and the salt marsh behind it. There is no fewer than 5 owners of the land in the marsh, not all of whom have the same intentions and often are at odds with one another. But do not lose hope. There have also been some substantial efforts toward conservation. And as a result of informed efforts the metaphorical barbaloots and their barbaloot suits are returning.
On this trip, our focus is on sediment erosion, deposition, and transport.
Beaches get their sand from 4 places:

Rivers that transport the weathering products

(small pieces of original rock, clays, and ions)
Erosion of cliffs (smaller pieces of the original cliff)
Biology (shells, diatoms, radiolarians etc . . .)
Chemical precipitation from water (ooids) (less common)

In this part of CA, # 1 & 2 have historically been the most important. Sand is moved along the beach via a process known as longshore drift. Sand is pushed diagonally up the beach and then retreats perpendicular to shore.
Eventually, the sand either gets deposited on the shore and blown inland, or it goes down a submarine canyon. If a beach is in equilibrium sand in =

sand out the beach is stable.

If an input is reduced then the beach will erode away unless a replacement sediment source is found
This replacement source is usually sand from a drowned beach offshore. We call it beach Nourishment.
STOP 1: IMPERIAL BEACH
a) Are the boulders here naturally found in this environment?
b) What types of rock are they?
c) What wildlife do we see?
d) From what direction are the waves traveling towards the shore?
e) What direction is longshore drift?
f) How big are the sand grains?