Patterns and rates of erosion produced by high energy wave processes on hard rock headlands: The Grind of the Navir, Shetland, Scotland

Marine Geology

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 28-46

  Hall, Adrian M ^a   Hansom, James D ^b   Jarvis, Jack ^c  

^a Fettes College   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

block quarrying; cliff top storm deposits; coastal evolution; marine erosion; rock coast; Scotland; Shetland; wave dynamics

Indexed keywords

BLOCK QUARRYING; CLIFF TOP; COASTAL EVOLUTION; IGNIMBRITE HEADLAND; SHETLAND; WAVE DYNAMICS;

CAVES; COASTAL ENGINEERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROCKS; STORMS;

EROSION;

COASTAL EVOLUTION; COLONIZATION; DEEP WATER; EROSION RATE; HARD ROCK; LICHEN;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED KINGDOM]; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38349181553     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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