Research Catalog

Title

Coastal sedimentation / edited by Donald J.P. Swift, Harold D. Palmer.

Publication

Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : Distributed worldwide by Academic Press, ©1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Swift, Donald J. P.
• Palmer, Harold Dean, 1934-

Description

xv, 339 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

Benchmark papers in geology ; 42

Uniform Title

Benchmark papers in geology ; 42.

Subject

• Coasts
• Sedimentation and deposition
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Küste
• Sedimentation
• Littoraux > Modification
• Sédimentation (géologie)
• Sédiments marins

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

THE COASTAL EQUILIBRIUM PROFILE: Development of the profile of equilibrium of the subaqueous shore terrace / N.M. Fenneman -- Stratigraphic record of transgressing seas in light of sedimentation on Atlantic coast of New Jersey / A.C. Fischer -- Sea level rise as a cause of shore erosion / P. Bruun -- Wave base, marine profile of equilibrium and wave built terraces-a critical appraisal / R.S. Dietz -- Wave base, marine profile of equilibrium and wave built terraces-Discussion / D.G. Moore and J.R. Curry -- Wave base, marine profile of equilibrium and wave built terraces-reply / R.S. Dietz -- River delta morphology: wave climate and the role of the subaqueous profile / L.D. Wright and J.M. Coleman -- COASTAL DEPOSITS: Transgressions and regressions / J.R. Curray -- The relict-recent sediment boundary on the Georgia Continental Shelf / O.H. Pilkey and D. Frankenberg -- Holocene history of a strand plain, lagoonal coast, Nayarit, Mexico / J.R. Curray, F.J. Emmel, and P.J.S. Crampton -- Textural differentiation on the shore face during erosional retreat of an unconsolidated coast, Cape Henry to Cape Hatteras, Western North Atlantic Shelf / D.J.P. Swift et al. -- Holocene sedimentary environment of the Atlantic inner shelf off Delaware / R.E. Sheridan, C.E. Dill, Jr., and J.C. Kraft -- STUDIES OF FLUID MOTION: Bottom currents near the coast during Hurricane Camille / S.P. Murray -- Nearshore current regimes in a linear shoal field, Middle Atlantic Bight, USA / H.D. Palmer and D.G. Wilson -- A wind driven near bottom current in the Southern North Sea / V.N.D. Gaston -- Wind driven and thermohaline circulation over the Continental Shelves / G.T. Csanady -- STUDIES OF SUBSTRATE RESPONSE: Changes in sand level on the beach and shelf at La Jolla, California / D.L. Inman and G.A. Rusnak -- Field observations of sand transport by shoaling waves / D.O. Cook and D.S. Gorsline -- Tidal currents, sediment transport and sand banks in Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Virginia / J.C. Ludwick -- Preliminary results of coincident current meter and sediment transport observations for wintertime conditions on the Long Island Inner Shelf / J. W. Laveille et al.

ISBN

• 0879333308
• 9780879333300

LCCN

78018696

OCLC

• ocm03933373
• 3933373
• SCSB-285283

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library