Coastal environmental changes revealed in geophysical images of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, U.S.A

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-234

  Buynevich, Ilya V ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier; Breach; GPR; New England; Paraglacial; Progradation

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

COASTAL ZONE; DISCONTINUITY; DUNE; ESCARPMENT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HOLOCENE; INFILL; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PROGRADATION; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPIT; VALLEY FILL;

MASSACHUSETTS; NANTUCKET; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845761414     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.12.3.227     Document Type: Review

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