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Transgressive depositional environments of the Mississippi River delta plain : a guide to the barrier islands, beaches, and shoals in Louisiana / Shea Penland and Ron Boyd, editors.

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Transgressive depositional environments of the Mississippi River delta plain : a guide to the barrier islands, beaches, and shoals in Louisiana / Shea Penland and Ron Boyd, editors.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Dept. of Natural Resources, Louisiana Geological Survey, [1985]

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Additional Authors
  • Penland, Shea
  • Boyd, Ron.
  • Geological Society of America
  • Louisiana Geological Survey
Description
iii, 233 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
Series Statement
Guidebook series / Louisiana Geological Survey ; no. 3
Uniform Title
Guidebook series (Louisiana Geological Survey) no. 3.
Subject
  • Barrier islands > Louisiana
  • Beaches > Louisiana
  • Banks (Oceanography) > Louisiana
  • Sedimentation and deposition
Note
  • "Prepared as a Field Trip Guidebook for the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana."
  • "May 1985."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
BARRIER SHORELINE FIELD EXCURSION / S. Penland and R. Boyd -- Field trip road log and stop descriptions -- An aerial reconnaissance of Louisiana's barrier shorelines -- MISSISSIPPI DELTA BARRIER SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT / S. Penland and R. Boyd -- Cyclic Mississippi delta sedimentation -- Depositional history of the Mississippi Delta Plain -- Transgressive barrier shoreline--genesis and evolution -- Modes of barrier island generation -- Evoiutionary processes -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: The Caminada-Moreau Beach Ridge Plain / R.G. Gerdes -- Overwash process-response characteristics of Landforms along the Caminada-Moreau Coast -- Overwash process-response characteristics of Louisiana / W. Ritchie and S. Penland -- The morphological development of Quatre Bayoux Pass / P.C. Howard -- A transgressive stratigraphic sequence from the Central Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana / I. LI. van Heerden, S. Penland, and R. Boyd -- Sand dune vegetation and management in Louisiana / I.A. Mendelssohn.
OCLC
14278615
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library