Beaches and coasts /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken :
John Wiley and Sons,
2020.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Coastline variability and functions in the global environment
- The Earth's mobile crust
- Sediments and rocks : materials of coastal environments
- Sea-level change and coastal environments
- Weather systems, extratropical storms, and hurricanes
- Waves and the coast
- Tides of the ocean
- River deltas : the source of most of our coastal sediments
- Estuaries
- Coastal lagoons
- Tidal flats
- Coastal wetlands
- Beach and nearshore environment
- Coastal dunes
- Barrier systems
- Tidal inlets
- Glaciated coasts
- Rocky coasts.