Coasts: Form, Process and EvolutionCoasts is about the processes that shape beaches, deltas, reefs, marshes, mudflats and other coastal landforms. It brings together studies that look at sediment movement, with longer-term evolution of the coast determined from coring and dating coastal sediments. It provides well-referenced and up-to-date material for undergraduates and postgraduates studying coastal environments. It will also appeal to environmental scientists, coastal geologists, coastal managers and planners. The book contains an extensive reference section, and numerous halftone illustrations of landform examples from around the world. |
Contents
Geological setting and materials | 36 |
Coastal processes 90 | 89 |
Rocky coasts | 143 |
Reef coasts | 189 |
Beach and barrier coasts | 248 |
Deltas and estuaries | 321 |
vii | 326 |
Muddy coasts | 378 |
Morphodynamics of coastal systems | 435 |
Human activities and future coasts | 476 |
| 498 | |
Index | 617 |
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accretion areas atoll Australia barrier islands Barrier Reef beach ridges beachface Belize Barrier Reef carbonate Chapter characteristics cliffs coast coastal landforms coastal systems delta deposits distributaries dominated dune embayment equilibrium eroded erosion estuaries factors flow foredune fringing reefs geomorphological grains gravel headlands Holocene indicated infill instance Interglacial intertidal lagoon landforms landward limestone lithology longshore longshore transport macrotidal mangrove marine marsh ment models morphodynamic morphology movement nearshore occur ocean offshore Pacific pattern Pleistocene processes progradation radiocarbon dating reef crest reef flat reef growth relative result retreat rip currents river rock sand scales schematically sea level sea-level change sea-level rise seaward Section sediment sedimentary sequence shallow shelf shore platforms shoreface shoreline significant slope storm stratigraphy studies subaerial surf zone surface Thom tidal range tide tion tombolo transgressive transport Trenhaile variations velocity wave action wave approach wave energy wave height wind Woodroffe
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