Nature of the Outer Banks - Environmental Process, Field Sites and Development Issues, Corolla

Informationen zum Autor Betsy Bennett is director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Klappentext North Carolina's Outer Banks, like barrier islands worldwide, are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes or sections of highway with them into the surf; sand dunes migrate with the wind; and storms open new inlets and dump sand in channels and sounds. The Nature of the Outer Banks describes these dynamic natural forces, explaining how they affect barrier islands in general and the Banks in particular, and guides visitors to sites where they can see these phenomena in action. Zusammenfassung A study of the major environmental processes affecting North Carolina's Outer Banks in America: the rising sea level; movement of sand by wind and water; and stabilization of sand by plant life. It also points out where along the northern Banks visitors can observe environmental processes at work.

Product details

• Authors: Dirk Frankenberg, Dirk/ Bennett Frankenberg, FRANKENBERG DIRK
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780807872345
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-7234-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Southern Gateways Guides (Pape; Southern Gateways Guides; Southern Gateways Guides (Pape
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Travel > Travel guides > North and Central America