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The Spanish Civil War and World War II finally ruined the Spanish pyrites industry. Shipments had been blocked during these years, and alternatives had been found. After World War II, many new sulfuric acid plants were constructed in Europe to replace those that had been destroyed, and U.S. expansion was bolstered by economic growth, especially by demand for phosphate fertilizers. These new plants all used elemental sulfur (Contact process). While Spanish pyrites production returned to pre-war levels by 1950 (see Figure 2.5 for the early history of production), their market share had seriously eroded as sulfur demand, overall, had more than doubled. Pyrites mining as a source of sulfur continued in Spain until 2002. 

With the immense pressures nowadays from population growth and economic activities, coastal strips have become a prime target for industrial and residential development, harbors, navigation jetties, and recreation. Not only a natural embayment requiring verification of stability prior to any proposal for man-made utilization or improvement, but also a plane straight coast may even be converted into an embayment with an addition of artificial structures. In fact, artificial bayed beaches have been created for recreation and tourism in the Mediterranean countries, especially in Spain, France, Italy, and Israel since the 1960s... 

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