GRAIN COMPOSITION OF THE ODESSA SAND BEACHES, ITS CHANGES AS A RESULT OF BEACH RENOURISHMENT AND INFLUENCE ON BIOTA
Journal: Collection of Scientific Works of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine
Year: 2015

In order to maintain the shore protection systems of Odessa the renourishment of sand beaches in the Gulf of Odessa was organized in 2007. We analyzed the sand grain size of the splash zone at monitoring sites before the beach renourishment, in one year and 5 years after renourishment. Simultaneously, on the monitoring sites the microscopic algae were studied. The algae are indicators of the ecological state of the littoral zone.A comparison of particle size of sand beaches before the renourishm