최근, 국내외에서 TDR(Time Domain Reflectometry)기법을 이용한 토양 함수량 측정이 유용한 기술로써 받아들여져 오고 있다. Topp 등, (1980)에 의하여 최초로 제안된 경험식이 TDR에 의해 측정된 유전상수로부터 토양 함수량을 결정하는 데에 폭넓게 적용되어져 왔다. 그러나, 이 방법의 적용범위는 중간 입자 조성의 토양(Medium-testured soils)에 한해서 제한되어져 왔다. 본 연구에서는 Topp 모델이 사력토(Sa

A total of 24 surface sediment samples collected from coastal region and fronting of sea cliff on Cape Cod in southeastern Massachusetts, were analyzed to investigate the sediment transport mechanism. According to the result of grain-size analysis, the overall trend of grain size decreases from the north(Wood End Beach) to the south(Nauset Light Beach). The coarser materials tend to be deposited at the foreshore than at the backshore. Especially gravel content(%) is very high in northern beaches. The gravel fraction tended to concentrate at the toe of the beach. In addition to gravel, the beach and nearshore bar also tended to be deposite of very coarse sand and the finer fraction accumulate in the offshore bar. Grain-size analyses of sediment indicates that the coarsest sands including gravel accumulate in the beach and nearshore bar, the finer fraction winnowed out by wave action to be deposited in the offshore bar. The beach and nearshore bar sands and gravel are subsequently transported laterally by the wave-driven longshore drift, and finally they come to rest in the distal end of Provincetown Hook. The finer offshore sands are trnasported laterally to the south by net southward-directed longshore current.