Barrier Islands from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of MexicoStephen P. Leatherman, Geological Society of America. Northeastern Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. Eastern Section |
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Barrier Islands in the Southern Gulf of St Lawrence Canada | 29 |
Landward Sediment Transfers in a Transgressive Barrier | 58 |
Aeolian Dynamics of a Barrier Island System | 81 |
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aeolian aerial photographs Ammophila Armon Assateague Island Atlantic backbarrier barrier beaches barrier island Cape Henlopen Cape Lookout channels coast coastal plain Core Banks Delaware Bay dominated dune dune ridge ebb-tidal deltas embayment environments erosion erosional estuary flood tidal deltas foredune Geol Geology geomorphic Geomorphology Godfrey Gulf of St Hayes high marsh Holocene Holocene barrier hurricane Kraft lagoons landward migration Lawrence longshore transport Magdalen Islands Malpeque marine McCann mesotidal meters microtidal morphology nearshore North Carolina occur Ocean offshore Otvos overwash overwash deposits Owens PALEOCHANNEL patterns peat Pleistocene Pond pre-Holocene progradational relatively relict River salt marsh sand sea level seaward sediment sediment supply sediment transport sedimentary sequence shelf shoals shore shoreface Southern Gulf Spartina patens spit storm overwash stratigraphic subtidal supratidal Tabusintac tidal inlets tidal range tide tide-dominated tion transgressive barrier Univ vegetation washover fans wave energy wave height