Historical development of Ocean City Inlet ebb shoal and its effect on Northern Assateague Island
Underwood SG and Hiland MW. 1995. Historical development of Ocean City Inlet ebb shoal and its effect on Northern Assateague Island. Inter-Agency Agreement IA4000-1-0022. US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering Research Center. Vicksburg, MS
A comprehensive history of the growth of the Ocean City inlet from 1933-1990, providing rates of shoreline change, and defining the current impact of the ebb shoal on northern Assateague Island. Includes and introduction to the regional setting; inlet morphodynamics (inlet origins, wave and tidal relationships, ebb shoal morphology, inlet stability, engineering impacts, bypassing at natural and jettied inlets); methods of study (shoreline position change, bathymetric change); results; discussion; conclusions and recommendations.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Underwood, Steven; Hiland, Matteson
- Date of Issue
- 1995-11
- Publisher
- US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering Research Center
- Units
- ASIS
- Keywords
- Aquatic Sciences, Assateague Island National Seashore MD VA, Environmental Impact, Geomorphology, Inlets, jetties & groins, Ocean City MD, Shoreline Change