The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline

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Автор: Orrin H. Pilkey

Название: The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline

Издательство: University of California Press

Год: 2011

Кол-во страниц: 302

Формат: Pdf

Размер: 47 MB

Язык: Английский

Take this book to the beach it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments--from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World's Beaches tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours. It discusses tides, waves, and wind the patterns of dunes, washover fans, and wrack lines and the shape of berms, bars, shell lags, cusps, ripples, and blisters.