How to read a North Carolina beach : bubble holes, barking sands, and rippled runnels /
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| Author / Creator: | Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934- |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004. |
| Description: | x, 162 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5142395 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. The Big Picture: Understanding Wind, Waves, and Sand
- The Equilibrium That Is a Beach
- Sea-Level Change
- Waves and the Currents They Form
- Rogue Waves
- Tsunamis
- Longshore Currents
- The Sand Supply of the Beach
- Sand Size
- Sources of Sand
- Groundwater in the Beach
- 2. What Makes and Shapes a North Carolina Beach
- The Divisions of a Beach
- Berms
- Beach Cusps
- Offshore Bars
- Source and Composition of North Carolina Sand
- Common Beach Minerals
- Heavy Minerals
- Gravel
- Beach Change: A Way of Life
- 3. North Carolina Dunes
- How Dunes Form
- Dune Types
- Dune Forms and Features
- Dune Sand and Stratification
- Dune Grass
- The Problems of Bulldozed and Artificial Dunes
- The Civilian Conservation Corps Dunes
- 4. Barrier Islands: The Platforms for Beaches
- What Are Barrier Islands?
- How Were Barrier Islands Formed?
- How Do Barrier Islands Evolve?
- Barrier Island Migration
- What's Happening Today?
- 5. Beach Clues: Reading the Signs on the Beach
- Drift and Wrack Lines
- Air in the Beach
- Holes, Rings, Blisters, Pits, and Volcanoes
- Foam, Swash, Imprints: How Currents and Winds Sculpt the Surface
- Wind: The Modifier
- Singing Sand
- Shipwrecks on the Beach
- Connections: The Ocean, the Beach, Life
- 6. Life Signs: Beach Critters, Past and Present
- From Shells to Sand: The Carbonate Fraction
- Brown and Black Shells
- Shell Orientation
- Sharks' Teeth
- Macrofauna: Clams, Crabs, Turtles, Birds, and Other Large Creatures
- Meiofauna: Microscopic Critters in the Sand
- Natural Beaches and Their Biota: An Uncertain Future
- 7. Conservation of Beaches
- What's Up?
- So What?
- What's the Alternative?
- Beach Terminology
- Suggested Readings
- Index
