Encyclopedia of Coastal ScienceM. Schwartz This new Encyclopedia of Coastal Science stands as the latest authoritative source in the field of coastal studies, making it the standard reference work for specialists and the interested lay person. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach. This Encyclopedia features contributions by 245 well-known international specialists in their respective fields and is abundantly illustrated with line-drawings and photographs. Not only does this volume offer an extensive number of entries, it also includes various appendices, an illustrated glossary of coastal morphology and extensive bibliographic listings. |
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Melanie J Stright | 39 |
Arctic Coastal Ecology | 45 |
William Ritchie | 601 |
F Blasco M Aizpuru and J Besnehard | 610 |
RADARSAT2 | 615 |
Carbonate Sandy Beaches | 655 |
J Pat Doody | 662 |
Laurel T Gorman | 672 |
Information Technology Laboratory Nina P Hadley Tidal Delta Consulting | 698 |
Mangroves Remote Sensing | 728 |
H Jesse Walker | 54 |
Donald Macintosh | 66 |
Marie Aizpuru Utrecht 3508 | 83 |
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William R Dally Russian Academy of Sciences | 95 |
cfinklcoastalplanning | 96 |
Longshore Sediment Transport | 134 |
South America Coastal Ecology University of New South Wales | 139 |
Coastline Changes | 160 |
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Jet Probes | 164 |
Beach Rating see Rating Beaches | 172 |
Amos Martin J Baptist | 176 |
France | 194 |
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Eric Bird | 232 |
Beach Stratigraphy | 237 |
Dilip K Barua | 243 |
Coasts Coastlines Shores and Shorelines | 248 |
Kevin R Hall | 251 |
Submerging Coasts | 253 |
Martin J Baptist | 259 |
Martyn Waller | 265 |
Europe Coastal Ecology | 269 |
Surf Modeling | 270 |
Boulder Pavements | 278 |
Bypassing at Littoral Drift Barriers | 298 |
Cohesive Sediment Transport | 327 |
Vincent | 337 |
Gisèle MullerParker | 343 |
Coastal and Marine Geology Program MS 999 Department of Oceanography | 345 |
Richard J Seymour | 352 |
Eisma Organizations | 357 |
Capping of Contaminated Coastal Areas | 395 |
Eric Bird | 397 |
David Hopley | 399 |
CrossShore Variation of Grain Size on Beaches | 406 |
Dieter Kelletat | 414 |
Datum see SeaLevel Datums | 426 |
Geostudies | 427 |
Shea Penland and Mark A Kulp | 432 |
Andrew Morang and William A Birkemeier | 439 |
Machair | 449 |
J Pat Doody | 451 |
Edward J Anthony Universidade do Vale Itajai Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do | 458 |
Dieter Kelletat and Anja Scheffers | 461 |
Gerhard Schellmann and Helmut Brückner | 470 |
Dieter H Kelletat | 476 |
Ram K Mohan | 480 |
Daniel F Belknap | 483 |
Robert J Nicholls and Frank M J Hoozemans | 491 |
William A Birkemeier | 492 |
Depth of Disturbance | 493 |
Coastal Temperature Trends | 502 |
Glossary of Coastal Geomorphology | 528 |
Surf Zone Processes | 536 |
Gross Transport | 588 |
History Coastal Ecology | 594 |
History Coastal Geomorphology | 733 |
Marine DebrisOnshore Offshore Seafloor Litter | 736 |
Mass Wasting | 744 |
Merlin | 753 |
Middle America Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology | 760 |
Francis A Galgano and Stephen P Leatherman | 768 |
Vivian Gornitz | 775 |
Engineer Research and Development Center | 783 |
Sediment Suspension by Waves | 784 |
Reclamation | 790 |
Douglas J Sherman | 796 |
Elijah W Ramsey III | 803 |
Komar | 810 |
Alan S Trenhaile | 817 |
Short | 825 |
Duck Road Kitty Hawk NC 27949 | 830 |
Roland Gehrels | 832 |
Paolo A Pirazzoli | 838 |
James G Titus | 845 |
Nearshore Sediment Transport Measurement | 853 |
Caribbean Islands Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology | 866 |
Sarah K Campbell | 872 |
John P Ahrens | 883 |
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Department of Geography | 908 |
Jeffrey H List | 920 |
William R Dally | 935 |
Tectonics and Neotectonics | 941 |
Paolo A Pirazzoli | 947 |
Edward B Hands | 954 |
USA B W Flemming | 958 |
FitzGerald | 964 |
Semeniuk | 974 |
Ping Wang | 977 |
Roger H Charlier | 980 |
Tide Mill | 986 |
Bruce Parker | 996 |
Maurice Schwartz | 1002 |
Miller and Nina P Hadley | 1008 |
Paolo Ciavola | 1016 |
Alastair Dawson | 1021 |
Peter H F Graber | 1026 |
Gillian Cambers | 1062 |
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Robert G Dean College of Engineering | 1112 |
Department of Geography Atlantic Ocean Islands Coastal Ecology | 1113 |
Michael S Fenster Bioconstruction | 1117 |
Alan F Blumberg | 1124 |
Boeser | 1134 |
Databases | 1145 |
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Cays | 1194 |
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accretion Africa algae algal Antarctic aquaculture Arctic areas Atlantic Australia barrier islands bars Basin beach erosion beach nourishment beach ridges beachrock benthic berm Bird boulder Cape carbonate changes cliffs climate coast Coastal Ecology Coastal Environments Coastal Research coastal zone coastline continental shelf coral reefs currents delta deposits depth dominated downdrift dunes e-mail east eastern ecosystems Engineering eroded estuaries fauna Figure fish foreshore Geomorphology Gulf habitats Holocene inlets intertidal Journal of Coastal km² lagoons landward littoral drift longshore mangrove Marine Geology morphology nearshore northern occur Ocean offshore phytoplankton Pleistocene processes production prograding Quaternary range rates Red Sea region River rock rocky sand sandy beaches sea ice sea level sea-level rise seagrass seaward sediment sediment transport Sedimentary shallow shore shoreline shrimp slope South southern species storm surface tectonic temperate tidal tide tion tropical USA Phone wave energy wind zooplankton
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