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Prograding Headland Beaches along the Southern Coast of Lake Erie

Figure 2. Data coverage tabulated for the (a) Fairport (Mentor) headland and (b)
Ashtabula headland study sites along with (c) a geographic information system
(GIS) workflow for deriving morphologic metrics. Useful data on shoreline position, bathymetry, and hard-structure occurrences are marked with ‘‘X,’’ while
data absence is marked with ‘‘O.’’
Figure 3. Contoured elevation maps of the nearshore lake floor at the Fairport
headland in (a) 1901, (b) 1946, and (c) 1983 based on bathymetry data from
nautical charts; and (d) a net-change map showing differences in nearshore
lake-floor elevation between 1901 and 1983. All units are in meters.
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