overwash

Friends tried to tow her out but she was caught in an overwash.

But on developed beaches, overwash is a big problem.

Its body color is weakly yellow with a heavy overwash of dusky brown.

Individual overwash events commonly produce deposits on the fan surface 0.25–0.75 m or more in thickness.

Washover is the sediment deposited inland of a beach by overwash.

Scattered cabbage palmetto are found on overwash portions at the east and west ends of the island.

The waves caused significant overwash, leaving parts of Norfolk under 2 feet (.6 m) of water.

These sand layers may be storm overwash from hurricanes in Massachusetts Bay over the past 700 years.

The barrier was subject to temporary overwash and/or penetration by sea water, which indicates a rise in sea-level.

The combination of the surge and waves resulted in minor beach erosion and overwash.

An eroded dune, overwash or even a naturally occurring breach, to anyone who knows local history, does not in itself threaten the mainland.

Overwash may occur on shoreline roads.

Deposition is defined both for overwash and shoreface deposition based on characteristic travel distances.

Ocean beaches are habitats with organisms adapted to salt spray, tidal overwash, and shifting sands.

The hurricane's velocity currents, wave overwash, and flooding caused damage to the lighthouse's public access causeway.

On natural beaches, this overwash is a benign process, one way beaches retreat inland to defend themselves against rising sea levels.

Some ocean overwash on N.C. 12—the main road along the Outer Banks—and beach erosion were also expected.

In North Carolina, this thin strip of barrier islands was buffeted by ocean overwash, sand and spray.

Overwash occurs on high-level seawalls.

Residents along the oceanfront are advised to relocate due to coastal flooding and ocean overwash that will occur," the county said in a statement.

As these sources are consumed or abandoned, supply dwindles and barrier beaches may experience overwash and landward retreat.

Combined with waves on top, areas of Galveston Island experienced a wall of water 8 feet (2.5 m) in height, creating overwash along the coastline.

In contrast, the low gravel barriers continued to experience wave overwash for several weeks until their crest was built sufficiently high to restrict waves to overtopping.

A channel formed on a barrier beach or spit by the overwash of sediments due to large waves during a storm is a washover channel.

Surviving buildings and new construction should be elevated on pilings at least two feet above the 100-year flood level to allow future storm overwash to flow underneath.