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Author Riggs, Stanley R

Title Battle for North Carolina's Coast : Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
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Contents Cover Page; THE BATTLE FOR NORTH CAROLINA'S; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Why Is There a Coastal Conflict?; 2 North Carolina's Coastal System; 3 The Ice Ages and Postglacial Sea-Level Rise; 4 Storms and Coastal Systems; 5 The Modern Ocean Shoreline System; 6 Formation of the Modern Coastal System; 7 What Is at Risk?; 8 Human Modification of Barrier Island Dynamics; 9 Adaptation to Coastal Change; 10 Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Figure Credits; Index
Summary This project examines issues of coastal erosion and potential system failure along the Outer Banks. As the authors point out, the barrier islands of the Outer Banks are not permanent landmasses, and due to sea-level rise caused by global warming, the impa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Coast changes -- North Carolina
Barrier islands -- North Carolina.
Shorelines -- Monitoring -- North Carolina
Geology, Structural -- North Carolina
Paleoceanography -- Quaternary.
NATURE -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
Barrier islands.
Coast changes.
Geology, Structural.
Paleoceanography.
Quaternary Geologic Period.
Shorelines -- Monitoring.
North Carolina.
Form Electronic book
Author Ames, Dorothea v. d. P.
Culver, Stephen J
Mallinson, David J
ISBN 9780807878071
0807878073