Episodic eolian sand deposition in the past 4000 years in Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, USA in response to possible hurricane/storm and anthropogenic disturbances

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Forman, Steven L ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Cod; Dunes; Eolian; Holocene; Hurricane; Landscape disturbance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012234604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2015.00003     Document Type: Article

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