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Title The battle for North Carolina's coast : evolutionary history, present crisis, & vision for the future / Stanley R. Riggs ... [and others].

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
©2011

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 Moore Stacks  GB459.4 .B38 2011    Available  ---
Description xvi, 142 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 9 pages 125-132) and index.
Contents Why is there a coastal conflict? -- North Carolina's coastal system -- The ice ages and postglacial sea-level rise -- Storms and coastal systems -- The modern ocean shoreline system -- Formation of the modern coastal system -- What is at risk? -- Human modification of barrier island dynamics -- Adaptation to coastal change -- Concluding thoughts.
Subject Coast changes -- North Carolina.
Coast changes.
North Carolina.
Barrier islands -- North Carolina.
Barrier islands.
Shorelines -- Monitoring -- North Carolina.
Shorelines -- Monitoring.
Geology, Structural -- North Carolina.
Geology, Structural.
Paleoceanography -- Quaternary.
Paleoceanography.
Chronological Term Quaternary
Added Author Riggs, Stanley R.
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