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FIG. 10.16 Idealized headland sand bank formation based on a sediment grain size of 300 μm.
Contours (in centimetres) show the magnitude of deposition after 50 tidal cycles. (A) is the baseline
case, (B) is the 300 MW energy extraction scenario, and (C) is the difference between (A) and (B).
(Reproduced from S.P. Neill, J.R. Jordan, S.J. Couch, Impact of tidal energy converter (TEC) arrays
on the dynamics of headland sand banks, Renew. Energy 37 (1) (2012) 387–397, with permission
from Elsevier.)
