Longshore transport: movement of material parallel to the shore, also referred to as longshore drift.

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Beach downdrift: area of beach towards which material is being moved by longshore transport.

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Longshore current: a movement of water parallel to the shore, caused by waves.

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Earlier, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union filed suit challenging the SoDo plan.

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Updrift: direction opposite to the predominant movement of longshore transport.

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Sending goods round to the east coast, where a different longshore union has long since accepted many of the technologies that are at issue in the west, is also unpromising.

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Downdrift: direction of longshore movement of beach materials.

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