Longitudinal distribution of slope and sediment characteristics in headland-bay beaches in Cádiz, Spain

ABSTRACT Rodriguez-Polo, S.; Del Rio, L., and Benavente, J., 2018. Longitudinal Distribution of Slope and Sediment Characteristics in Headland-bay Beaches in Cadiz, Spain. In: Shim, J.-S.; Chun, I., and Lim, H.S. (eds.), Proceedings from the International Coastal Symposium (ICS) 2018 (Busan, Republic of Korea). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85, pp. 306–310. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Headland-bay beaches are systems with an asymmetric curved planform that develop downdrift of a natural or artificial coastal headland. These beaches have some common features found along the coasts of the world, presenting a well differentiated zonation. The main objective of this work is to elucidate how parameters such as grain size, sorting and beachface slope in the different zones (shadow, central and distal sectors) determine the final morphology of the beach. For this purpose, twelve headland-bay systems in the coast of Cadiz (South Spain), with contrasting wave and tide regimes, were mo...