How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in this comprehensive field guide to the state's beaches, which shows visitors how to decipher the mysteries of the beach and interpret clues to an ever-changing geological story. Orrin Pilkey, Tracy Monegan Rice, and William Neal explore large-scale processes, such as the composition and interaction of wind, waves, and sand, as well as smaller features, such as bubble holes, drift lines…
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Weitere Autoren: Rice, Tracy Monegan / Neal, William J.
- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5510-2
- EAN: 9780807855102
- Produktnummer: 9777046
- Verlag: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 162 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B15.8 cm x D1.1 cm 227 g
- Gewicht: 227
Über den Autor
Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University. Tracy Monegan Rice is a coastal geologist working for the federal government. William J. Neal is professor of geology at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Pilkey and Neal are editors of the Living with the Shore book series.
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