Eye of a human hurricane: Pea Island, Oregon Inlet, and Bodie Island, northern Outer Banks, North Carolina

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 460, Issue , 2009, Pages 43-72

  Riggs, Stanley R ^a   Ames, Dorothea V ^a   Culver, Stephen J ^a   Mallinson, David J ^a   Corbett, D Reide ^a   Walsh, John P ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; BRIDGES; ECONOMICS; SEA LEVEL; SHORE PROTECTION;

BEACH NOURISHMENT PROJECTS; COASTAL SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ISLAND DYNAMICS; NATURAL PROCESS; NORTH CAROLINA; STORM DYNAMICS; WILDLIFE REFUGE;

HURRICANES;

BARRIER ISLAND; BEACH NOURISHMENT; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HURRICANE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE; URBAN AREA; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH CAROLINA; OREGON INLET; OUTER BANKS; PEA ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 74949133859     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2460(04)     Document Type: Article

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