Event timing and sequence in coastal shoreline erosion: Hurricanes Bertha and Fran and the Neuse estuary

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 616-623

  Phillips, Jonathan D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluff erosion; Event sequencing; Shoreline retreat; Slope failure

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EROSION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME EVENT; HURRICANE; STORM SURGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032794067     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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