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UK, Blackwell Publishing. – July 15, 2004. – 419 p. ISBN 0-632-04308-3 Coastlines of the world are as diverse as any geological setting on Earth. Beaches and Coasts is an exciting and unique new textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts and details the highly varied processes that have shaped them. Having conducted research on coastlines throughout the world, the authors draw on a wealth of experience that broadens the content of chapters and provides for numerous and varied examples. The book furnishes a basic understanding of the tectonic framework, hydrographic regime, climatic setting, and geologic materials that determine the morphology of a coast. Individual chapters are devoted to major coastal environments such as barriers, tidal inlets, marshes, estuaries, lagoons, deltas, glaciated coasts, rocky coasts and many others. Beaches and Coasts provides the necessary content for teaching a broad coastal geology course. Though designed for introductory students, its comprehensive treatment of coastal topics will make it appropriate for many upper level courses. Coastline variability and functions in the global environment Introduction Coas

Who reads Beaches and Coasts?

Author

Richard A. Davis Jr. and Duncan M. FitzGerald

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781444311228

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Geology