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Coasts, an introduction to coastal geomorphology /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bird, E. C. F. (Eric Charles Frederick)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1984.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Coasts.
Littoral.
Coastal regions. Geomorphological processes.
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.