"Revetment" and "Submerged Breakwater"
- Vector Art
- Betsy Boynton
Figure 24. Breakwaters build beaches. Incoming waves carry sediment over a breakwater. This allows for sediment to be deposited behind the breakwater.
Figure 26. The revetment protects the land to the right of it from incoming waves. Revetments prevent erosion by absorbing and scattering the waves.
From a draft report for the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program National Knowledge Bank, by M. Shah.