Keywords:
Glacial landforms.
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Coasts.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Glaciated Coasts is a collection of articles that deals with shoreline morphologies of glaciated coasts and the processes that formed these coastlines in North America. This book examines nonsandy shorelines and covers a range of geologic and geographic coastal settings in a northern-southern order. This text investigates and compares the glaciated northern shorelines. These shorelines north of the glacial limit are mostly of the primary form in different stages of modification by marine agents. Shorelines are associated with embayments; baymouth barriers in turn enclose embayments. This book describes beaches as having coarse or mixed sediment populations. Most beaches worldwide have gravel clasts that have been rounded and sorted by marine processes. In the southeastern coast of Alaska, active tectonics on a mountainous shoreline is evident. The region also shows emergent and submerging shorelines with a glacial imprint undergoing formation by modern processes. This book also gives examples of gravel beach environments in various coastal settings. This book can prove useful for students of meteorology, oceanography as well as to marine ecologists and biologists. It can also benefit readers whose interest lie with coastal environment or with the general earth sciences.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (381 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781483270203
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1839553
DDC:
551.313
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- Glaciated Coasts -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1. Geomorphology of a Tectonically Active, Glaciated Coast, South-Central Alaska -- I. Introduction -- II. Physical Setting -- III. Coastal Geomorphology -- IV. Coastal Sedimentary Environments -- V. Summary -- References -- Chapter 2. Fjord Sedimentation in Northern British Columbia -- I. Introduction -- II. Controls on Fjord Development and Sedimentation -- III. Burke Channel-North Bentinck Arm -- References -- Chapter 3. Coarse-Grained Beach Sedimentation under Paraglacial Conditions, Canadian Atlantic Coast -- I. Introduction -- II. Glaciation in Atlantic Canada -- III. Postglacial Relative Sea Level and Tidal Adjustments -- IV. Modern Oceanographic Environment -- V. Beach Morphology and Sediments-Selected Examples -- VI. Beach Development under Varying Sediment-Source Regimes -- VII. Beach Development under Varying Relative-Sea-Level Regimes -- VIII. Beach Development under Varying Dynamic Regimes -- IX. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4. An Evolutionary Model for Transgressive Sedimentation on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia -- I. Introduction and Objectives -- II. Physical Processes -- III. Relative Sea Level -- IV. Coastal Geology -- V. Eastern Shore Processes and Morphology -- VI. Evolutionary Coastal Model -- VII. Discussion -- VIII. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. Holocene Evolution of the South-Central Coast of Iceland -- I. Introduction -- II. Glaciation -- III. Fluvioglacial Processes -- IV. Coastal Processes -- V. Shoreface and Continental Shelf -- VI. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6. An Inventory of Coastal Environments and Classification of Maine's Glaciated Shoreline -- I. Introduction -- II. Coastal Climate -- III. Late Quaternary History -- IV. Bedrock Geology -- V. Methods -- VI. Results.
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VII. Discussion -- VIII. Summary -- References -- Chapter 7. Quaternary Stratigraphy of Representative Maine Estuaries: Initial Examination by High- Resolution Seismic Reflection Profiling -- I. Introduction -- II. Geologic Setting -- III. Methods -- IV. Discussion -- V. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8. Controls and Zonation of Geomorphology along a Glaciated Coast, Gouldsboro Bay, Maine -- I. Introduction -- II. Physical Setting -- III. Methods -- IV. Geomorphic Classes -- V. Controls of Coastal Geomorphology -- VI. Geomorphic Zonation -- VII. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9. Sediment Accumulation Forms, Thompson Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts -- I. Introduction and Setting -- II. South Cuspate Spit: Drift Convergence and the Initiation of a Tombolo -- III. North Cuspate Spit: Migrating Spits and Gravel Ridge Forms -- IV. South Longshore Spit: Gravel Overwash and Bar Emergence -- V. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10. Source of Pebbles at Mann Hill Beach, Scituate, Massachusetts -- I. Introduction -- II. Mann Hill Beach -- III. Offshore Sediment -- IV. Waves -- V. Wave-Induced Sediment Transport -- VI. Source of the Shingle on Mann Hill Beach -- References -- Chapter 11. Shoreline Development of the Glacial Cape Cod Coastline -- I. Introduction -- II. Glacial Geology of Cape Cod -- III. Coastal Geomorphology of Cape Cod -- IV. Cape Cod's Fulcrum-Nodal Coastline -- V. Fulcrum Cliffline Erosion -- VI. Cape Cod Beach Sediment Patterns -- VII. Barrier Beach Analogs of Cape Cod -- VIII. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12. Reworking of Glacial Outwash Sediments along Outer Cape Cod: Development of Provincetown Spit -- I. Introduction -- II. Evolution of Provincetown Spit -- III. Methodology -- IV. Results -- V. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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