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One story filed under coastal boulder deposits on World Data Ocean. The newest of them: “Refining Wave Tank Data to Validate Boulder Transport Models”. Coastal boulder deposits are powerful evidence of extreme wave activity, but interpreting them quantitatively has been limited by poorly constrained force-balance parameters. A Global Hub for Ocean Intelligence 4 World Data Ocean is a centralized digital platform where researchers, scientists, and ocean enthusiasts converge to… The list below is every coastal boulder deposits story on World Data Ocean, newest first.

Refining Wave Tank Data to Validate Boulder Transport Models
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Refining Wave Tank Data to Validate Boulder Transport Models

Coastal boulder deposits are powerful evidence of extreme wave activity, but interpreting them quantitatively has been limited by poorly constrained force-balance parameters. New analysis of controlled wave-tank experiments reveals that boulder shape and wave impact regime exert first-order controls on transport. Drag and friction coefficients remain robust across most cases, yet the inertia coefficient shows strong sensitivity to model structure. Elongated boulders require drag coefficients roughly 50% lower than cubic clasts.