Barrier Islands of the Florida Gulf Coast Peninsula.

With text and hundreds of figures, charts, drawings, and color photos, this book covers the long, narrow islands that run near and all along the Gulf coast of the Florida peninsula, considered by geologists to be the most complicated barrier island system in the world. These 30 islands and inlets cr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Richard A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pineapple Press, 2016.
Temas:
Barrier islands > Florida > Gulf Coast.
Geology > Florida > Gulf Coast.
Barrier island ecology > Florida > Gulf Coast.
Cordons littoraux > Floride > Mexique, Côte du golfe du.
Géologie > Floride > Mexique, Côte du golfe du.
Écologie des cordons littoraux > Floride > Mexique, Côte du golfe du.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Barrier island ecology
Barrier islands
Ecology
Geography
Geology
Gulf Coast (Fla.) > Geography.
Gulf Coast (Fla.) > Environmental conditions.
Mexique, Côte du golfe du (Flor.) > Géographie.
Mexique, Côte du golfe du (Flor.) > Conditions environnementales.
Florida > Gulf Coast
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to barrier islands
  • How barrier islands work
  • Pristine wave-dominated barriers
  • Moderately developed wave-dominated barriers
  • Densely developed wave-dominated barriers
  • Pristine mixed-energy barriers
  • Moderately developed mixed-energy barriers
  • Densely developed mixed-energy barriers
  • Unusual barriers
  • Conclusions
  • Glossary.

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