Author: Stephen John GradijanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Lebensspuren of a Barrier Island Complex
Author: Stephen John GradijanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Geology of Holocene Barrier Island Systems
Author: Richard A. Jr. DavisPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642783600
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Barrier islands represent a complex coastal system that includes a number of different sedimentary depositional environments; nearshore zone, beach, dunes, washover fans, marshes, tidal flats, estuaries, lagoons, and tidal inlets. The morphodynamics of these fragile coastal systems provide a further complication to this coastal type. Although barrier islands comprise only 15% of the world's coastline, they have received a far greater proportion of attention from the scientific and engineering community, and more recently, from coastal managers and environmentalists. Modern barrier islands are arguably the most expensive and most vulnerable of all coastal environments. Pressure from developers for residential, industrial, and recreational development has caused most of our barriers to become significantly impacted by human activity, especially over the past few decades. These pres sures have led to extensive preservation of natural barriers through efforts from all levels of government and also by private organizations. Governments have also formed coastal management programs that help to control any future de velopment with the intent being to keep human activity compatible with barrier island morphodynamics. In order to devise appropriate coastal zone management programs, it is necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of the morpho dynamics of barrier island systems. This volume provides comprehensive details on barrier island morphology, sediment distribution, and the process-response mechanisms that cause changes to both. These are the important aspects of barrier systems that can provide important input into the development and implementation of coastal management programs.
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations in the Pure and Applied Sciences
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Study of Trace Fossils
Author: R.W. FreyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642659233
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
In 1971 I published a review of ichnology other concentrating only on traces made (Houston AAPG: SEPM Trace Fossil Field by a certain group of organisms, regardless Trip Guidebook) that I thought could be of their setting. Nevertheless, needless re dundancy has hopefully been eliminated. expanded rather easily into a worthwhile Some of the chapters are more special book on the subject. I probed that possi ized than others (because of the nature of bility for a while, thinking that I would particular topics); hence, these may be write the book myself. As I began to out somewhat less familiar or "comprehensible" line the chapters in more detail, however, than others-depending upon the reader's it soon became apparent that my personal own interests and background. Other dif knowledge of too many facets of ichnology ferences in the scope and content of vari scraped bottom all too soon. I quickly de ous chapters stem from the simple fact cided that a better book could be produced that a considerably greater backlog of pre by soliciting specific contributions from vious work is available in certain facets of other workers who, collectively, had first ichnology than in others. But we hope hand experience with virtually every aspect that all of the chapters will prove to be use of the field. That became the actual plan, ful to anyone wishing to delve 'into them. the result of which is this book.
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations in the Pure and Applied Sciences Accepted by Colleges and Universities of the United States
Author: Tracking the Golden Isles
Author: Anthony J. MartinPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356964
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Knobbed whelks, dwarf clams, and shorebirds -- The lost barrier islands of Georgia -- Georgia salt marshes, the places with the traces -- Rooted in time -- Coquina clams, listening to and riding the waves -- Ghost crabs and their ghostly traces -- Ghost shrimp whisperer -- Why horseshoe crabs are so much cooler than mermaids -- Moon snails and necklaces of death -- Rising seas and étoufées -- Burrowing wasps and baby dinosaurs -- Erasing the tracks of a monster -- Traces of toad toiletry -- Why do birds' tracks suddenly appear? -- Traces of the red queen -- Marine moles and mistaken science -- Tracking that is otterly delightful -- Alien invaders of the Georgia coast -- The wild cattle of Sapelo -- Your Cumberland Island pony, neither friend nor magic -- Going hog wild on the Georgia coast -- Redbays and ambrosia beetles -- Shell rings and tabby ruins -- Ballast of the past -- Riders of the storms -- Vestiges of future coasts.
Barrier Island
Author: John D. MacDonaldCollected Reprints
Author: University of Georgia. Marine InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Gulf Coast Association of Geological SocietiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Trace Fossils
Author: Richard G. BromleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135076073
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The new edition of this work includes an appendix listing criteria for the identification of ichnotaxa. It covers all aspects of tiering trace fossil diversity and ichnoguilds, and is aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in palaeoecology, paleobiology and sedimentology.