Sediment Cell

• What is a sediment cell?


  A length of coastline and its associated nearshore area within which the movement of coarse sediment is largely self contained.
• What are inputs?


  Where sediment is generated.
• Examples of inputs

  - Cliff erosions

  - Onshore currents

  - River transport

  - Wind blown sediment on land

  - Subaerial processes

  - Marine organisms
• What are outputs?


  Deposition dominates here.
• Examples of outputs

  - Sand dunes

  - Beach

  - Bars
• Examples of transfers

  - Longshore drift

  - Swash

  - Backwash

  - Tidal currents
• What is a transfer?


  What carries sediment elsewhere