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245 0 0 _aCoastal evolution :
_bLate Quaternary shoreline morphodynamics /
_cedited by R.W.G. Carter, C.D. Woodroffe.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1994.
300 _a1 online resource (xxi, 517 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
338 _aonline resource
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 0 _tCoastal evolution : an introduction /
_rR.W.G. Carter and C.D. Woodroffe --
_tMorphodynamics of coastal evolution /
_rP.J. Cowell and B.G. Thom --
_tDeltaic coasts /
_rJ.R. Suter --
_tWave-dominated coasts /
_rP.S. Roy [and others] --
_tMacrotidal estuaries /
_rJ. Chappell and C.D. Woodroffe --
_tLagoons and microtidal coasts /
_rJ.A.G. Cooper --
_tCoral atolls /
_rR.F. McLean and C.D. Woodroffe --
_tContinental shelf reef systems /
_rD. Hopley --
_tArctic coastal plain shorelines /
_rP.R. Hill [and others].
505 0 0 _tParaglacial coasts /
_rD.L. Forbes and J.P.M. Syvitski --
_tCoastal cliffs and platforms /
_rG.B. Griggs and A.S. Trenhaile --
_tTectonic shorelines /
_rP.A. Pirazzoli --
_tDeveloped coasts /
_rK.F. Nordstrom.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aPaleogeography
_yQuaternary.
650 0 _aCoast changes.
700 1 _aCarter, Bill
_q(R. W. G.),
_eeditor.
700 1 _aWoodroffe, C. D.,
_eeditor.
710 2 _aIGCP Project 274,
_eissuing body.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511564420
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