Coastal SedimentationDonald J. P. Swift, Harold Dean Palmer |
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Preface | 1 |
PERIGLACIAL PROCESSESCuchlaine A M King | 27 |
Concepts and History Cuchlaine A M King | 28 |
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alluvium approximately Assoc Atlantic average barrier island beach ridges beds Bethany Beach bottom Bull Cape changes in sand channel cm/sec coast coastal plain coastline continental shelf continental slope continental terrace crest Curray current meter Delaware delta depth Dietz direction drift erosion erosional facies Figure flood flow Geol geological Geologists grain Gulf of Mexico Holocene inlet inner shelf lagoonal landward littoral longshore longshore transport marine profile marsh migration muds Nayarit nearshore North observed ocean offshore onshore Paper period Pleistocene present profile of equilibrium progradation range rate of deposition record reference rods relative sea level relict result Río San Pedro ripple rise of sea river samples sea floor seaward sedi sediment transport sedimentary shallow shelves Shepard shoal shore face shoreface shoreline station strand plain stratigraphy surf zone surface surge survey thermocline tidal tide tion topography unconformity wave wave-base wave-built terrace