Coastal evolution [electronic resource] : Late Quaternary shoreline morphodynamics / edited by R.W.G. Carter, C.D. Woodroffe.
The shoreline is a rapidly changing interface between the land and the sea. Much of the world's population lives in the coastal zone, and coasts are under threat from a variety of natural and anthropogenic impacts, such as climate or sea-level change. Understanding the natural dynamics of a sho...
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1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Coastal evolution : an introduction / R.W.G. Carter and C.D. Woodroffe
- Morphodynamics of coastal evolution / P.J. Cowell and B.G. Thom
- Deltaic coasts / J.R. Suter
- Wave-dominated coasts / P.S. Roy [and others]
- Macrotidal estuaries / J. Chappell and C.D. Woodroffe
- Lagoons and microtidal coasts / J.A.G. Cooper
- Coral atolls / R.F. McLean and C.D. Woodroffe
- Continental shelf reef systems / D. Hopley
- Arctic coastal plain shorelines / P.R. Hill [and others]
- Paraglacial coasts / D.L. Forbes and J.P.M. Syvitski
- Coastal cliffs and platforms / G.B. Griggs and A.S. Trenhaile
- Tectonic shorelines / P.A. Pirazzoli
- Developed coasts / K.F. Nordstrom.