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Under the Sea: Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf (2017)

Bailey, Geoff N. 1948- ; Harff, Jan 1943- ; Sakellariu, Dēmētrēs

Cham : Springer

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Keywords: Earth sciences ; Culture Study and teaching ; Coasts ; Archaeology ; Earth Sciences

Description / Table of Contents: This book focuses on issues of method and interpretation in studies of submerged landscapes, concentrating on illustrations and case studies from around Europe with additional examples from other parts of the world. Such landscapes were once exposed as dry land during the low sea levels that prevailed during the glacial periods that occupied most of the past million years and provided extensive new territories for human exploitation. Their study today involves underwater investigation, using techniques and strategies which are clearly set out in these chapters. The underwater landscape provides a rich source of information about the archaeology of human settlement and long-term changes in environment, climate and sea-level. This book highlights how such information can be revealed and interpreted. The examples presented here and the focus on techniques make this book of worldwide relevance. Chapters describe examples of underwater archaeological investigation as well as collaboration with offshore industries and legal, management and training issues relating to underwater cultural heritage. Such studies point to the significance of this drowned landscape, and readers are invited to consider its human impact in terms of past settlement and population dispersal through palaeolandscape reconstruction and interpretation in relation to broader themes in human prehistory. This volume is based on work from COST Action SPLASHCOS, a four-year multi-disciplinary and multi-national research program supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and has something to benefit all those with an interest in the sea floor of the continental shelf and the archaeological and social impact of sea-level change, including archaeologists, marine scientists, geographers, cultural-heritage managers, commercial and governmental organisations, policy makers and interested members of the public

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 436 p. 218 illus., 168 illus. in color, online resource)

ISBN: 9783319531601

Series Statement: Coastal Research Library 20

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53160-1

URL: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz489631436cov.jpg

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53160-1

Language: English

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Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East : Past and Future Projection (2017)

Harff, Jan 1943- ; Furmańczyk, Kazimierz ; Storch, Hans von 1949-

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Keywords: Earth sciences ; Sedimentology ; Oceanography ; Coasts ; Geotechnical engineering ; Climate change ; Earth Sciences ; Ostsee ; Polen ; Küstenmorphologie ; Küstensediment ; Meeresspiegelschwankung ; Strandlinie ; Baltikum ; Deutschland ; Ostsee ; Meeresspiegel ; Zunahme ; Litoral ; Ostsee ; Eustatische Meeresspiegelschwankung ; Ostsee ; Polen ; Küstenmorphologie ; Küstensediment ; Meeresspiegelschwankung ; Strandlinie ; Baltikum ; Deutschland ; Ostsee ; Meeresspiegel ; Zunahme ; Litoral ; Ostsee ; Eustatische Meeresspiegelschwankung

Description / Table of Contents: This book discusses sea-level and coastline changes. These topics are becoming increasingly important for populations living along the edge of the world’s oceans and seas, especially in areas where eustatic sea-level rise is superimposed on isostatic subsidence and storm-induced coastal erosion. This is the case at the southern and eastern Baltic Sea coast: in the south, glacio-isostatic subsidence enhances the effect of climate-induced sea-level rise and strong storm effects are causing a continuous retreat of the coast. On the eastern coast glacio-isostatic uplift compensates for eustatic sea-level rise, but storm-induced waves are responsible for permanent morphodynamic changes to the coastline. There is an increasing need for protection concepts for defense but also for the economic use of the different types of coastal zones. The elaboration of these management concepts can be facilitated through models that generate future projections of coastal developments in the light of modern climate change. This anthology comprises the results of the research project “Coastline Changes of the southern Baltic Sea - Past and future projection (CoPaF)” funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, which was run by a team of Estonian, German, Lithuanian, and Polish geoscientists and coastal engineers from 2010 to 2013 and overlapped with and complemented the work of COST Action SPLASHCOS supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). As the southern and eastern Baltic serves as a natural laboratory for the investigation of coastal processes, the project’s findings contribute not only to the solution of regional problems in Baltic coastal research and engineering, but also to worldwide interests in description, modelling and parameterization of coastal processes and morphodynamics

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 388 p. 151 illus., 126 illus. in color, online resource)

ISBN: 9783319498942

Series Statement: Coastal Research Library 19

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49894-2

URL: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz489631428cov.jpg

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49894-2