Groins are shore-perpendicular structures built in series along a coast to trap longshore-drifted sand; sand accumulates preferentially on the updrift side of each groin, revealing the net direction of longshore sediment transport.
The repeated shore-perpendicular structures with sand piled against one side in a sawtooth pattern are groins, engineered specifically to interrupt and trap longshore drift. Since...
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