Shore platform erosion data- Mahia, Kaikoura and Others

Description

The dataset contains coastal site names, elevation (in meters above mean sea level), and erosion rates (in mm/year) on several shore platforms on different rock coasts of the world. It includes multiple regions like Eastern Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Italy. The shore platform downwearing rates were sourced from Trenhaile and Porter (2018), Stephenson and Kirk (1996), Yuan et al. (2020), and Cucchi et al. (2006).

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The measurements were obtained using the Micro-Erosion Meter (MEM). This instrument comprises an equilateral triangular frame attached to an engineering dial gauge. The MEM legs sits atop bolts recessed in rock surface at varying depths while the probe records the elevation of the rock surface when set on the three bolts. The MEM values/readings are averaged to estimate an average annual downwear rate (measured in mm yr-1) for a particular bolt site/station over the total measurement period. These MEM values are successively averaged for each of the created monitoring profiles to estimate the equivalent mean yearly erosion rate for the wide shore platform area.

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