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Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Accretion and Erosion Waves on Beaches
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    Chapter 2 Africa, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 3 Africa, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 4 Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping and Light Detection and Ranging
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    Chapter 5 Algal Rims
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    Chapter 6 Alluvial-Plain Coasts
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    Chapter 7 Altimeter Surveys, Coastal Tides, and Shelf Circulation
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    Chapter 8 Antarctica, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
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    Chapter 9 Aquaculture
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    Chapter 10 Archaeological Site Location, Effect of Sea-Level Change
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    Chapter 11 Archaeology
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    Chapter 12 Arctic, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 13 Arctic, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 14 Artificial Islands
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    Chapter 15 Asia, Eastern, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 16 Asia, Eastern, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 17 Asia, Middle East, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
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    Chapter 18 Asia, Southern
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    Chapter 19 Asteroid-Impact Coasts
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    Chapter 20 Atlantic Ocean Islands, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 21 Atlantic Ocean Islands, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 22 Atolls
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    Chapter 23 Australia, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 24 Australia, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 25 Barrier Islands
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    Chapter 26 Barrier
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    Chapter 27 Barriers, Gravel—see Gravel Barriers
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    Chapter 28 Bars
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    Chapter 29 Bay Beaches
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    Chapter 30 Beach and Nearshore Instrumentation
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    Chapter 31 Beach Cusps
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    Chapter 32 Beach Drain
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    Chapter 33 Beach Erosion
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    Chapter 34 Beach Features
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    Chapter 35 Beach Nourishment
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    Chapter 36 Beach Processes
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    Chapter 37 Beach Profile
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    Chapter 38 Beach Rating
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    Chapter 39 Beach Ridges
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    Chapter 40 Beach Safety
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    Chapter 41 Beach Sediment Characteristics
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    Chapter 42 Beach Stratigraphy
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    Chapter 43 Beach Use and Behaviors
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    Chapter 44 Beachrock
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    Chapter 45 Beaufort Wind Scale
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    Chapter 46 Bioconstruction
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    Chapter 47 Bioengineered Shore Protection
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    Chapter 48 Bioerosion
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    Chapter 49 Biogenous Coasts
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    Chapter 50 Biogeomorphology
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    Chapter 51 Bioherms and Biostromes
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    Chapter 52 Black and Caspian Seas, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
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    Chapter 53 Bluffs
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    Chapter 54 Bogs
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    Chapter 55 Boulder Barricades
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    Chapter 56 Boulder Beaches
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    Chapter 57 Boulder Pavements
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    Chapter 58 Bypassing at Littoral Drift Barriers
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    Chapter 59 Capping of Contaminated Coastal Areas
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    Chapter 60 Carbonate Sandy Beaches
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    Chapter 61 Caribbean Islands, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
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    Chapter 62 Carrying Capacity in Coastal Areas
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    Chapter 63 Cays
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    Chapter 64 Central America-See Middle America
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    Chapter 65 Chalk Coasts
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    Chapter 66 Changing Sea Levels
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    Chapter 67 Cheniers
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    Chapter 68 Classification of Coasts
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    Chapter 69 Cleaning Beaches
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    Chapter 70 Cliffed Coasts
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    Chapter 71 Cliffs, Erosion Rates
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    Chapter 72 Cliffs, Lithology Versus Erosion Rates
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    Chapter 73 Climate Patterns in the Coastal Zone
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    Chapter 74 Coastal Boundaries
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    Chapter 75 Coastal Changes, Gradual
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    Chapter 76 Coastal Changes, Rapid
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    Chapter 77 Coastal Climate
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    Chapter 78 Coastal Currents
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    Chapter 79 Coastal Engineering
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    Chapter 80 Coastal Hoodoos
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    Chapter 81 Coastal Lakes and Lagoons
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    Chapter 82 Coastal Modeling and Simulation
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    Chapter 83 Coastal Processes
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    Chapter 84 Coastal Sedimentary Facies
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    Chapter 85 Coastal Soils
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    Chapter 86 Coastal Subsidence
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    Chapter 87 Coastal Temperature Trends
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    Chapter 88 Coastal Upwelling and Downwelling
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    Chapter 89 Coastal Warfare
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    Chapter 90 Coastal Wells
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    Chapter 91 Coastal Wind Effects
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    Chapter 92 Coastal Zone Management
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    Chapter 93 Coastline Changes
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    Chapter 94 Coasts, Coastlines, Shores, and Shorelines
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    Chapter 95 Cohesive Sediment Transport
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    Chapter 96 Computer Simulation
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    Chapter 97 Conservation of Coastal Sites
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    Chapter 98 Continental Shelves
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    Chapter 99 Conversion Tables—See Appendix 1
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    Chapter 100 Coral Reef Coasts
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    Chapter 101 Coral Reef Islands
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    Chapter 102 Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 103 Coral Reefs, Emerged
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    Chapter 104 Cross-Shore Sediment Transport
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    Chapter 105 Cross-Shore Variation of Grain Size on Beaches
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    Chapter 106 Cuspate Forelands
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    Chapter 107 Dalmatian Coasts
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    Chapter 108 Dams, Effect on Coasts
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    Chapter 109 Databases
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    Chapter 110 Dating
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    Chapter 111 Datum
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    Chapter 112 Debris
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    Chapter 113 Deltaic Ecology
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    Chapter 114 Deltas
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    Chapter 115 Demography of Coastal Populations
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    Chapter 116 Depth of Closure on Sandy Coasts
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    Chapter 117 Depth of Disturbance
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    Chapter 118 Desalination
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    Chapter 119 Desert Coasts
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    Chapter 120 Dewatering
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    Chapter 121 Developed Coasts
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    Chapter 122 Dikes
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    Chapter 123 Dissipative Beaches
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    Chapter 124 Dredging of Coastal Environments
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    Chapter 125 Drift and Swash Alignments
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    Chapter 126 Driftwood
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    Chapter 127 Dune Calcarenite
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    Chapter 128 Dune Ridges
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    Chapter 129 Dynamic Equilibrium of Beaches
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    Chapter 130 Economic Value of Beaches
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    Chapter 131 El NiñNo-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
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    Chapter 132 Endogenic and Exogenic Factors
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    Chapter 133 Energy and Sediment Budgets of the Global Coastal Zone
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    Chapter 134 Engineering Applications of Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 135 Environmental Quality
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    Chapter 136 Eolianite
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    Chapter 137 Eolian Processes
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    Chapter 138 Erosion: Historical Analysis and Forecasting
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    Chapter 139 Erosion Processes
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    Chapter 140 Estuaries, Anthropogenic Impacts
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    Chapter 141 Estuaries
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    Chapter 142 Eustasy
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    Chapter 143 Europe, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 144 Europe, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 145 Faulted Coasts
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    Chapter 146 Forecasting
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    Chapter 147 Geochronology
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    Chapter 148 Geodesy
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    Chapter 149 Geographic Information Systems
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    Chapter 150 Geographical Coastal Zonality
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    Chapter 151 Geohydraulic Research Centers
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    Chapter 152 Geotextile Applications
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    Chapter 153 Glaciated Coasts
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    Chapter 154 Global Positioning Systems
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    Chapter 155 Global Vulnerability Analysis
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    Chapter 156 Global Warming
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    Chapter 157 Glossary of Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 158 Gravel Barriers
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    Chapter 159 Gravel Beaches
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    Chapter 160 Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
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    Chapter 161 Gross Transport
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    Chapter 162 Ground-Penetrating Radar
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    Chapter 163 Groundwater
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    Chapter 164 Hazards
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    Chapter 165 Headland-Bay Beach
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    Chapter 166 Health Benefits
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    Chapter 167 Hindcasting
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    Chapter 168 History, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 169 History, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 170 History, Coastal Protection
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    Chapter 171 Holocene Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 172 Holocene Epoch
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    Chapter 173 Honeycomb Weathering
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    Chapter 174 Hoodoos
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    Chapter 175 Human Impact on Coasts
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    Chapter 176 Hydrology of the Coastal Zone
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    Chapter 177 Ice-Bordered Coasts
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    Chapter 178 Indian Ocean Coasts, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 179 Indian Ocean Coasts, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 180 Indian Ocean Islands, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
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    Chapter 181 Ingression, Regression, and Transgression
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    Chapter 182 Instrumentation—See Beach and Nearshore Instrumentation
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    Chapter 183 Isostasy
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    Chapter 185 Jet Probes
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    Chapter 186 Journal Listing
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    Chapter 187 Karst Coasts
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    Chapter 188 Klint
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    Chapter 189 Lagoons
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    Chapter 190 Landslides
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    Chapter 191 Late Quaternary Marine Transgression
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    Chapter 192 Lifesaving and Beach Safety
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    Chapter 193 Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar)
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    Chapter 194 Litter
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    Chapter 195 Littoral
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    Chapter 196 Littoral Cells
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    Chapter 197 Littoral Drift Gradient
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    Chapter 198 Log-Spiral Beach
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    Chapter 199 Longshore Sediment Transport
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    Chapter 200 Machair
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    Chapter 201 Managed Retreat
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    Chapter 202 Management—See Coastal Zone Management
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    Chapter 203 Mangroves, Ecology
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    Chapter 204 Mangroves, Geomorphology
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    Chapter 205 Mangroves, Remote Sensing
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    Chapter 206 Mapping Shores and Coastal Terrain
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    Chapter 207 Marine Debris-Onshore, Offshore, Seafloor Litter
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    Chapter 208 Marine Parks
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    Chapter 209 Marine Terraces
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    Chapter 210 Mass Wasting
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    Chapter 211 Meteorological Effects on Coasts
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    Chapter 212 Microtidal Coasts
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    Chapter 213 Middens—See Shell Middens
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    Chapter 214 Middle America, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
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    Chapter 215 Mining of Coastal Materials
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    Chapter 216 Modeling Platforms, Terraces, and Coastal Evolution
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    Chapter 217 Modes and Patterns of Shoreline Change
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    Chapter 218 Monitoring Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 219 Monitoring Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 220 Muddy Coasts
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    Chapter 221 Natural Hazards
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    Chapter 222 Navigation Structures
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    Chapter 223 Nearshore Geomorphological Mapping
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    Chapter 224 Nearshore Sediment Transport Measurement
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    Chapter 225 Nearshore Wave Measurement
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    Chapter 226 Net Transport
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    Chapter 227 New Zealand, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 228 New Zealand, Coastal Geomorphology and Oceanography
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    Chapter 229 North America, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 230 North America, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 231 Notches
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    Chapter 232 Numerical Modeling
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    Chapter 233 Oil Spills
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    Chapter 234 Oil Spills, High-Energy Coasts
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    Chapter 235 Offshore Sand Banks and Linear Sand Ridges
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    Chapter 236 Offshore Sand Sheets
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    Chapter 237 Organizations
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    Chapter 238 Pacific Ocean Islands, Coastal Ecology
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    Chapter 239 Pacific Ocean Islands, Coastal Geomorphology
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    Chapter 240 Paleocoastlines
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    Chapter 241 Paraglacial Coasts
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    Chapter 242 Peat
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    Chapter 243 PERIGLACIAL
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    Chapter 244 Photogrammetry
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    Chapter 245 Physical Models
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    Chapter 246 Placer Deposits
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    Chapter 247 Pleistocene Epoch
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    Chapter 248 Pluvial Lake Shore Deposits
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    Chapter 249 Polders
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    Chapter 250 Pressure Gradient Force
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    Chapter 251 Profiling, Beach
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    Chapter 252 RADARSAT-2
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    Chapter 253 Rating Beaches
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    Chapter 254 Reclamation
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    Chapter 255 Reefs, Non-Coral
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    Chapter 256 Reflective Beaches
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    Chapter 257 Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments
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Title
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2005
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-3880-1
ISBNs
978-1-4020-4871-5, 978-1-4020-1903-6, 978-1-4020-3880-8
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Schwartz, Maurice L

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Maurice Schwartz

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Brazil 1 3%
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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 23%
Researcher 7 18%
Student > Bachelor 7 18%
Other 2 5%
Student > Master 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 8 20%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 7 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 13%
Engineering 3 8%
Chemistry 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 15 38%