Barrier islands from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico / edited by Stephen P. Leatherman.

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Coastal Research Symposium (1978 : Boston, Mass.) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Academic Press, 1979.
Description
xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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      "The proceedings of a Coastal Research Symposium held on March 9, 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts for the Geological Society of America, Northeast Section and the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Eastern Section."
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographies and index.
      Contents
      • Tribute to John H. Hoyt (1928-1970)
      • Barrier island morphology as a function of tidal and wave regime / Miles O. Hayes
      • Barrier islands in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada / S.B. McCann
      • Landward sediment transfers in a transgressive barrier island system, Canada / John W. Armon
      • Aeolian dynamics of a barrier island system / Peter S. Rosen
      • A geobotanical approach to classification of barrier beach systems / Paul J. Godfrey, Stephen P. Leatherman and Robert Zaremba
      • Washover and tidal sedimentation rates as environmental factors in development of a transgressive barrier shoreline / John J. Fisher and Elizabeth J. Simpson
      • Processes and morphologic evolution of an estuarine and coastal barrier system / John C. Kraft, Elizabeth A. Allen, Daniel F. Belknap, Chacko J. John and Evelyn M. Maurmeyer
      • Nexus : new model of barrier island development / Susan D. Halsey
      • Quaternary evolution of Core Banks, North Carolina : Cape Lookout to New Drum Inlet / Thomas F. Moslow and S. Duncan Heron, Jr.
      • Geomorphology, washover history, and inlet zonation : Cape Lookout, North Carolina to Bird Island, North Carolina / William J. Cleary and Paul E. Hosier
      • Barrier island development during the Holocene recession, southeastern United States / George F. Oertel
      • Barrier island evolution and history of migration, north central Gulf Coast / Ervin G. Otvos, Jr.
      ISBN
      • 0124402607
      • 9780124402607
      LCCN
      79015954
      OCLC
      5101223
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