Where do coastlines stabilize following rapid retreat?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1698-1703

  Simms, Alexander R ^a   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

autogenic; climate change; deltas; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS;

ATLANTIC COASTS; AUTOGENIC; DELTAS; MODEL PREDICTION; PINNING POINTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; VALLEY NETWORK;

SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL ZONE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; DELTA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; TRANSGRESSION; WAVE ACTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

ALBEMARLE SOUND; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895100439     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058984     Document Type: Article

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