Beach morphodynamic systems of the central Netherlands coast, Den Helder to Hoek van Holland

The 120 km long central Netherlands coast consists of an essentially continuous sandy Holocene regressive/transgressive barrier system facing the southern North Sea. The beach and surf zone is composed of predominantly quartz sands which are coarsest at the shoreline (D50 = 286 Um) and fine seaward. Overall shoreface gradients vary between a low...