How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach : a Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast.

How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach : a Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast.

Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-sand beaches to southwestern shell beaches, taking a fresh look at the ever-changing landscape. With Tonya Clayton as your guide, you�...

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Main Author: Clayton, Tonya D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Southern gateways guide.
Subjects:
Coastal ecology > Florida > Gulf Coast > Guidebooks.
Coastal ecology
Gulf Coast (Fla.) > Guidebooks.
Florida > Gulf Coast
Guidebooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. FLORIDA'S GULF COAST: A REGION TO SAVOR; A Feast of Beaches; The Northwest Barrier Chain: Big Dunes and Sugar Sands; The Big Bend Coast: Marsh, Marsh, Everywhere; The West-Central Barrier Chain: World-Class Diversity; The Southwest Mangrove Coast: Forest Mazes and Shell Beaches; Movers and Shapers; Tectonic Setting; Sand Supply; Waves and Tides; Local Geological History; Climate and Weather; Sea Level; 2. READING THE LANDSCAPE: A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW; Getting to Know the Neighborhood; Reading the Landscape; A Dynamic Equilibrium.
  • Recarved Shorelines: Direct Human InfluenceThe Great Coastal Conveyer Belt: Longshore Transport; Of Passes and Prisms; Hot Dogs, Drumsticks, and Other Telling Shapes: Waves vs. Tides; "The Sea Has Swept Entirely across the Island": Hurricanes and Other Major Storms; 3. SHORELINES IN MOTION; Changes; Signs of a Moving Shoreline; Signs of an Advancing (Moving Seaward) Shoreline; Signs of a Retreating (Moving Landward) Shoreline; Barrier-Island Life Cycles; An Island Is Born; Island Demise; Islands in Midlife; Islands High and Low.
  • Life in a Warming World: Shoreline Migration since the Great Ice Age4. DUNES; Watching the Winds of Change; Recipe for a Dune; Wind Shadows, Green Anchors, and Other Dune Features; When Wave Meets Dune; Coastal Dune Lakes: Only in the Panhandle; 5. BEACHES; Beach or No Beach?; Waves; How Tall, How Wide?; Spilling and Ripping; Tides, Etc.; On the Beach; Rhythms of the Beach; Withdrawals and Deposits; El Niño and La Niña; The Bermuda High; Sea Level; Beach Life Lived Large; 6. EPHEMERA; Wind Flow; Raindrops; Ripple Marks; Rill Marks; Airholes; Marks of the Swash Zone; Footprints; Lebensspuren.
  • Lightning TubesLife in the Wrack Line; Black Gold; Beach Life: A Benthic Trio; 7. SAND; Mineral Grains: Quartz and Other Long-Timers; Sands of Life: The Biogenic Fraction; Size, Sorting, and Color; Specialty Sands; Beach Life: Meiofauna; 8. BEACH REMODELING; Hard Structures; Seawalls and Kin; Breakwaters; Groins and Jetties; Sand Placement; Artificial Dunes; Beach Scraping; Beach Tilling and Beach Raking; Innovative Technologies; Seaside Evolution; 9. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES; Beach Happenings: How Much? How Big? How Long? How Fast?; Disturbance; Scale; Rate; Sandy Beach Ecosystems.
  • EPILOGUE: READ YOUR BEACHESACKNOWLEDGMENTS; BEACH WORDS; SUGGESTED READINGS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; A selection of color plates.

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