Sand beaches

The origins of the word beach as a noun.

From the 1530s, "loose, water-worn pebbles of the seashore," probably from

Old English bæce, bece "stream," from Proto-Germanic *bakiz.

Later extended to loose, pebbly shores (1590s), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning "pebbles worn by the waves."

The French word, grève shows the same evolution.

Online Etymology Dictionary

Sand beach profile

Bayside  

Ocean
mean sea level
 profile  
inland sand seaward

A view of the Atlantic Ocean from a protected Florida Atlantic Beach dune covered in Sea Oats, Uniola paniculata.

Miami beach sea grass restoration.

Beach

Beach and Dune

sub-littoral
Lower
Upper
Dune Crest
Scrub oak / palm
Marsh & Mangrove
Renilla reniformis Emerita Amphipoda Uniola paniculata gopherus polyphemus Ostrea
Sea pansies Mole Crabs Amphipods Sea Oats Gopher tortoise  
Feeding footage
Feeding
 
 
Burrows as keystones
  
Other neighbors:    
  whelk        
Some related deep sea amphipods

Students are aligned to key boundaries of the beach zones on the Florida Atlantic Coastal shore

Students at beach berm

The back dune areas

back dune areas

back dune

Back dune profile behind the beach.

Bayside

forest

Rio de Janeiro Bay beaches

Rio de Janiero Bay

 

Henry Beston, The Outermost House.

Science

Naturalists

Beach ball first recorded 1940; beach bum first recorded 1950.