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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Coasts, an introduction to coastal geomorphology
  name:
    name part: Bird, E. C. F. (Eric Charles Frederick)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: aca
    place:
      place term: Canberra
    publisher: Australian National University Press
    date issued: 1984
    edition: 3rd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Eric C.F. Bird.
  note: Previous edition: Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1976.
  note: Includes indexes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306).
  subject:
    topic: Coasts
  subject:
    topic: Littoral
  subject:
    topic: Coasts
  subject:
    topic: Coastal regions. Geomorphological processes
  classification: GB451.2 .B57 1984
  classification: 551.457
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    title info:
      title: Coasts, an introduction to coastal geomorphology
    name:
      name part: Bird, E. C. F. (Eric Charles Frederick)
    origin info:
      publisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1984
      edition: 3rd ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)894422534
  identifier: 0708111068
  identifier: 9780708111062
  identifier: 070811105X
  identifier: 9780708111055
  identifier: 83072678
  record info:
    record content source: AUT
    record creation date: 840618
    record change date: 20240319143035.0
    record identifier: in00000560657
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng