The importance of extratropical and tropical cyclones on the short-term evolution of barrier islands along the northern Gulf of Mexico, USA

Marine Geology

Volumn 210, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 63-78

  Stone, Gregory W ^a   Liu, Baozhu ^a   Pepper, David A ^b   Wang, Ping ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

coastal erosion; Hurricanes; overwash; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

MASS CONSERVATION; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

BEACHES; CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

BARRIER ISLAND; CYCLONE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; STORM DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 4344629917     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.05.021     Document Type: Article

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