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Washover processes are an important factor in the transgressive development of barrier coastlines. Sea level elevation necessary for overwash is composed of a storm surge component, a wave setup component, a wave runup component, and an astronomical tide component. The nature and severity of overwash are a function of overwash elevation, its frequency of occurrence, and regional barrier geometry.
Washover deposits on Louisiana barriers commonly account for over 50% of total sediment storage. Louisiana barriers have evolved by deltaic distributary abandonment; continuing sequential evolution of Mississippi delta complexes has generated a corresponding sequence of transgressive barriers. The resulting spectrum of barrier geometries has provided an ideal field site for the examination of washover form variability and its controlling processes.
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