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Coasts, an introduction to coastal geomorphology
xv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
TIDES, WAVES, AND CURRENTS: Tides -- Waves -- Currents -- Catastrophic processes -- CHANGING LEVELS OF LAND AND SEA: Movements of the land -- Movements of the sea -- Measuring changes of level -- Evidence of emerged coastlines -- Submerged coastlines -- Holocene marine submergence -- The question of recent emergence -- Changes of level at the present time -- CUFFED COASTS: The morphology of cliffs -- Shore platforms -- Plunging cliffs -- BEACHES, SPITS, AND BARRIERS: The origin of beach sediments -- Beach systems -- Composition of beach sediments -- Lateral movements of beach material -- Tracing sediment flow -- Beach outlines in plan -- Beach outlines in profile -- Features related to sorting -- Beach rock -- Spits -- Barrier beaches and related forms -- Beach erosion -- COASTAL DUNES: Foredunes -- Parallel dunes -- Blowouts and parabolic dunes -- Relative age of dune development -- Coastal sandrock -- Dune lakes -- ESTUARIES AND LAGOONS -- Estuaries -- Salt marshes and mangrove swamps -- Coastal lagoons -- Lagoon entrances -- Swamp encroachment -- Configuration of lagoons -- DELTAS -- Deltaic forms and structures -- Natural levees -- CORAL REEFS AND ATOLLS: Factors influencing reef development -- Fringing reefs -- Offshore reefs -- Origin of reef forms -- Emerged reefs -- Islands on reef platforms -- CLASSIFICATION OF COASTAL LANDFORMS.
Previous edition: Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1976.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306).
Coastal regions. Geomorphological processes
Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1984