Coastal evolution :
Coastal evolution : Late Quaternary shoreline morphodynamics /
edited by R.W.G. Carter, C.D. Woodroffe.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- 1 online resource (xxi, 517 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Coastal evolution : an introduction / Morphodynamics of coastal evolution / Deltaic coasts / Wave-dominated coasts / Macrotidal estuaries / Lagoons and microtidal coasts / Coral atolls / Continental shelf reef systems / Arctic coastal plain shorelines / R.W.G. Carter and C.D. Woodroffe -- P.J. Cowell and B.G. Thom -- J.R. Suter -- P.S. Roy [and others] -- J. Chappell and C.D. Woodroffe -- J.A.G. Cooper -- R.F. McLean and C.D. Woodroffe -- D. Hopley -- P.R. Hill [and others]. Paraglacial coasts / Coastal cliffs and platforms / Tectonic shorelines / Developed coasts / D.L. Forbes and J.P.M. Syvitski -- G.B. Griggs and A.S. Trenhaile -- P.A. Pirazzoli -- K.F. Nordstrom.
The shoreline is a rapidly changing interface between the land and the sea, where much of the world's population lives. Coasts are under threat from a variety of natural and anthropogenic impacts, such as climate or sea-level change. This 1995 book assesses how coastlines change, and how they have evolved over the last few thousand years. It introduces concepts in coastal morphodynamics, recognising that coasts develop through co-adjustment of process and form. Particular types of coast, such as deltas, estuaries, reefs, lagoons and polar coasts, are examined in detail with conceptual models developed on the basis of well-studied examples. Coastal Evolution is written for undergraduates who are studying coastal geomorphology, geologists who are mapping coastal sedimentary sequences and environmental scientists, engineers, planners and coastal managers who need to understand the natural processes of change which occur on shorelines.
9780511564420 (ebook)
Paleogeography--Quaternary.
Coast changes.
QE501.4.P3 / C63 1994
551.4/57
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Coastal evolution : an introduction / Morphodynamics of coastal evolution / Deltaic coasts / Wave-dominated coasts / Macrotidal estuaries / Lagoons and microtidal coasts / Coral atolls / Continental shelf reef systems / Arctic coastal plain shorelines / R.W.G. Carter and C.D. Woodroffe -- P.J. Cowell and B.G. Thom -- J.R. Suter -- P.S. Roy [and others] -- J. Chappell and C.D. Woodroffe -- J.A.G. Cooper -- R.F. McLean and C.D. Woodroffe -- D. Hopley -- P.R. Hill [and others]. Paraglacial coasts / Coastal cliffs and platforms / Tectonic shorelines / Developed coasts / D.L. Forbes and J.P.M. Syvitski -- G.B. Griggs and A.S. Trenhaile -- P.A. Pirazzoli -- K.F. Nordstrom.
The shoreline is a rapidly changing interface between the land and the sea, where much of the world's population lives. Coasts are under threat from a variety of natural and anthropogenic impacts, such as climate or sea-level change. This 1995 book assesses how coastlines change, and how they have evolved over the last few thousand years. It introduces concepts in coastal morphodynamics, recognising that coasts develop through co-adjustment of process and form. Particular types of coast, such as deltas, estuaries, reefs, lagoons and polar coasts, are examined in detail with conceptual models developed on the basis of well-studied examples. Coastal Evolution is written for undergraduates who are studying coastal geomorphology, geologists who are mapping coastal sedimentary sequences and environmental scientists, engineers, planners and coastal managers who need to understand the natural processes of change which occur on shorelines.
9780511564420 (ebook)
Paleogeography--Quaternary.
Coast changes.
QE501.4.P3 / C63 1994
551.4/57