Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Coasts
- Changing Sea Levels
- Cheniers
- Classification of Coasts (see Holocene Coastal Geomorphology)
- Cleaning Beaches
- Cliffed Coasts
- Cliffs, Erosion Rates
- Cliffs, Lithology versus Erosion Rates
- Climate Patterns in the Coastal Zone
- Coastal Boundaries
- Coastal Changes, Gradual
- Coastal Changes, Rapid
- Coastal Climate
- Coastal Currents
- Coastal Engineering (see Shore Protection Structures; Navigation Structures)
- Coastal Hoodoos
- Coastal Lakes and Lagoons
- Coastal Modeling and Simulation
- Coastal Processes (see Beach Processes)
- Coastal Sedimentary Facies
- Coastal Soils
- Coastal Subsidence
- Coastal Temperature Trends
- Coastal Upwelling and Downwelling
- Coastal Warfare
- Coastal Wells
- Coastal Wind Effects
- Coastal Zone Management
- Coastline Changes
- Coasts, Coastlines, Shores, and Shorelines
- Cohesive Sediment Transport
- Computer Simulation (see Coastal Modeling and Simulation)
- Conservation of Coastal Sites
- Continental Shelves
- Conversion Tables (see Appendix )
- Coral Reef Coasts
- Coral Reef Islands
- Coral Reefs
- Coral Reefs, Emerged
- Cross-Shore Sediment Transport
- Cross-Shore Variation of Grain Size on Beaches
- Cuspate Forelands
- Dalmatian Coasts
- Dams, Effect on Coasts
- Databases (see Appendix )
- Dating (see Geochronology)
- Datum (see Sea-Level Datums)
- Debris (see Marine Debris-Onshore, Offshore, Seafloor Litter)
- Deltaic Ecology
- Deltas
- Demography of Coastal Populations
- Depth of Closure on Sandy Coasts
- Depth of Disturbance
- Desalination
- Desert Coasts
- Dewatering (see Beach Drain)
- Developed Coasts
- Dikes
- Dissipative Beaches
- Dredging of Coastal Environments
- Drift and Swash Alignments
- Driftwood
- Dune Calcarenite (see Eolianite)
- Dune Ridges
- Dynamic Equilibrium of Beaches
- Economic Value of Beaches
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- Endogenic and Exogenic Factors
- Energy and Sediment Budgets of the Global Coastal Zone
- Engineering Applications of Coastal Geomorphology
- Environmental Quality
- Eolianite
- Eolian Processes Erosion: Historical Analysis and Forecasting Erosion Processes
- Estuaries, Anthropogenic Impacts
- Estuaries
- Eustasy
- Europe, Coastal Ecology
- Europe, Coastal Geomorphology
- Faulted Coasts
- Forecasting (see Erosion: Historical Analysis and Forecasting) Geochronology
- Geodesy
- Geographic Information Systems
- Geographical Coastal Zonality
- Geohydraulic Research Centers
- Geotextile Applications
- Glaciated Coasts
- Global Positioning Systems
- Global Vulnerability Analysis
- Global Warming (see Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming)
- Glossary of Coastal Geomorphology (see Appendix )
- Gravel Barriers
- Gravel Beaches
- Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
- Gross Transport
- Ground-Penetrating Radar
- Groundwater (see Hydrology of the Coastal Zone)
- Hazards (see Natural Hazards)
- Headland-Bay Beach
- Health Benefits
- Hindcasting (see Wave Hindcast) History, Coastal Ecology
- History, Coastal Geomorphology
- History, Coastal Protection
- Holocene Coastal Geomorphology
- Holocene Epoch
- Honeycomb Weathering
- Hoodoos (see Coastal Hoodoos)
- Human Impact on Coasts
- Hydrology of the Coastal Zone
- Ice-Bordered Coasts
- Indian Ocean Coasts, Coastal Ecology
- Indian Ocean Coasts, Coastal Geomorphology
- Indian Ocean Islands, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
- Ingression, Regression, and Transgression
- Instrumentation (see Beach and Nearshore Instrumentation)
- Isostasy Jet Probes
- Journal Listing (see Appendix )
- Karst Coasts
- Klint
- Lagoons (see Coastal Lakes and Lagoons)
- Landslides (see Mass Wasting)
- Late Quaternary Marine Transgression
- Lifesaving and Beach Safety
- Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) (see Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping)
- Litter (see Marine Debris)
- Littoral
- Littoral Cells
- Littoral Drift Gradient
- Log-Spiral Beach (see Headland-Bay Beach)
- Longshore Sediment Transport
- Machair
- Managed Retreat
- Management (see Coastal Zone Management)
- Mangroves, Ecology
- Mangroves, Geomorphology
- Mangroves, Remote Sensing
- Mapping Shores and Coastal Terrain
- Marine Debris-Onshore, Offshore, Seafloor Litter
- Marine Parks
- Marine Terraces
- Mass Wasting
- Meteorological Effects on Coasts
- Microtidal Coasts
- Middens (see Shell Middens)
- Middle America, Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology
- Mining of Coastal Materials
- Modeling Platforms, Terraces, and Coastal Evolution
- Modes and Patterns of Shoreline Change
- Monitoring Coastal Ecology
- Monitoring Coastal Geomorphology
- Muddy Coasts
- Natural Hazards
- Navigation Structures
- Nearshore Geomorphological Mapping. - Nearshore Sediment Transport Measurement
- Nearshore Wave Measurement
- Net Transport
- New Zealand, Coastal Ecology
- New Zealand, Coastal Geomorphology and Oceanography
- North America, Coastal Ecology
- North America, Coastal Geomorphology
- Notches
- Numerical Modeling
- Oil Spills
- Oil Spills, High-Energy Coasts
- Offshore Sand Banks and Linear Sand Ridges
- Offshore Sand Sheets
- Organizations (see Appendix )
- Pacific Ocean Islands, Coastal Ecology
- Pacific Ocean Islands, Coastal Geomorphology
- Paleocoastlines
- Paraglacial Coasts
- Peat
- Periglacial (see Ice-Bordered Coasts)
- Photogrammetry
- Physical Models
- Placer Deposits
- Pleistocene Epoch
- Pluvial Lake Shore Deposits
- Polders
- Pressure Gradient Force
- Profiling, Beach
- RADARSAT-. Rating Beaches
- Reclamation
- Reefs, Non-Coral
- Reflective Beaches
- Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments
- Remote Sensing: Wetlands Classification
- Rhythmic Patterns
- Ria
- Rip Currents
- Ripple Marks
- Rock Coast Processes
- Salt Marsh
- Sampling Methods (see Monitoring, Coastal Ecology; Monitoring, Coastal Geomorphology)
- Sand Rights
- Sandy Coasts
- Scour and Burial of Objects in Shallow Water
- Sea-Level Change (see Changing Sea Levels)
- Sea-Level Changes During the Last Millennium
- Sea-Level Datums (see Tidal Datums)
- Sea-Level Indicators, Biologic
- Sea-Level Indicators-Biological in Depositional Sequences
- Sea-Level Indicators, Geomorphic
- Sea-Level Rise, Effect
- Sediment Analysis and Classification (see Beach Sediment Characteristics)
- Sediment Budget
- Sediment Suspension by Waves
- Sediment Transport (see Cross-Shore Sediment Transport;Longshore Sediment Transport)
- Sedimentary Basins
- Seismic Displacement
- Sequence Stratigraphy
- Setbacks
- Sharm Coasts
- Shelf Processes
- Shell Middens
- Shingle Beach (see Gravel Beach) Shore Platforms
- Shore Protection Structures
- Shoreface
- Simple Beach and Surf Zone Models
- Sloughs (see Estuaries; Tidal Creeks) Small Islands
- Sociology, Beaches (see Beach Use and Behaviors) South America, Coastal Ecology
- South America, Coastal Geomorphology
- Spits
- Storm Surge
- Storms (see Meterological Effects) Strandflat
- Structures (see Shore Protection Structures; Navigation Structures)
- Submarine Groundwater Discharge
- Submerged Coasts
- Submerging Coasts
- Surf Modeling
- Surf Zone Processes
- Surfing
- Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems
- Tafone
- Tectonics and Neotectonics
- Thalassostatic Terraces
- Thalassotherapy (see Health Benefits)
- Tidal Creeks
- Tidal Datums
- Tidal Environments
- Tidal Inlets
- Tidal Flats
- Tidal Flats, Open Ocean Coasts
- Tidal Power
- Tidal Prism
- Tide-Dominated Coasts
- Tide Gauges
- Tide Mill
- Tides
- Time Series Modeling
- Topic Categories (see Appendix )
- Tors
- Tourism and Coastal Development
- Tourism, Criteria for Coastal Sites
- Tracers
- Trottoirs
- Tsunamis
- Uplift Coasts
- Vegetated Coasts
- Vibracore
- Vorticity
- Volcanic Coasts
- Washover Effects
- Warfare (see Coastal Warfare)
- Water Quality Wave and Tide-Dominated Coasts
- Wave Climate
- Wave-Current Interaction
- Wave-Dominated Coasts
- Wave Environments
- Wave Focusing
- Wave Hindcasting
- Wave Power Wave Refraction Diagrams Waves Weathering in the Coastal Zone
- Wetlands
- Wetland Restoration
- Appendix: Conversion Tables
- Appendix: Databases
- Appendix: Glossary of Coastal Geomorphology
- Appendix: Journals
- Appendix: Organizations
- Appendix: Topic Categories
- Index