Assessing the impact of tidal inlets on adjacent barrier island shorelines

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 294-310

  Fenster, Michael ^a   Dolan, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Impact zone; Inlet domination; Inlet influence; Navigational entrance; Shoreline rate of change; Shoreline stabilization; Tidal prism; Tide dominated; Wave dominated

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; BARRIER ISLANDS; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; IMPACT ZONE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIDAL INLET; TIDAL INLETS;

USA, ATLANTIC COAST; USA, NORTH CAROLINA; USA, VIRGINIA;

EID: 0029749928     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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