Barrier beaches and Barrier islands

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Barrier Islands ◽  
Barrier Beaches

scholarly journals BARRIER BEACHES AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.H. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Littoral Zone ◽  
Barrier Islands ◽  
Shallow Sea ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Induced Currents ◽  
Barrier Beaches ◽  
Wave Induced

Barrier islands and barrier beaches have developed across structurally controlled estuaries and embayments in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. The supply of sediments to the littoral zone and the subsequent accumulation of barrier deposits is a result of the reworking, transportation and longshore dispersal of sediments which are moved landward by tidal and wave-induced currents from the adjacent shallow sea floor. The size and stability of the barriers is controlled by the shoreline orientation.

EAARL Coastal Topography-Mississippi and Alabama Barrier Islands, Post-Hurricane Gustav, 2008

Data Series ◽  
10.3133/ds556 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier ◽  
Amar Nayegandhi ◽  
C.W. Wright ◽  
A.H. Sallenger ◽  
J.C. Brock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Barrier Islands ◽  
Coastal Topography
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