The world's beaches /
| Други автори: | Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2011.
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World's beaches. |
Съдържание:
- A world of beaches
- Beaches of the world
- Of what are beaches made? Sediments
- How beaches work: waves, currents, tides, and wind
- The form of the beach: crab's-eye and bird's-eye views
- The beach surface up close: imprints of tides, currents, and waves
- Escape from within: air and water in the beach
- Whichever way the wind blows: reworking the beach surface
- Beach creatures: tracks, trails, and traces
- Carbonate beaches: seashells and the stories they tell
- Digging the beach: into the third dimension
- Beaches at risk: sea-level rise and the human response
- The urbanized beach: from middens to the maelstrom of development.