A Moveable Shore - The Fate of the Connecticut Coast

In these pages you will find a vivid description of the 1938 hurricane and why we should plan for similarly destructive storms; an introduction to the geologic forces that formed our coast and continue to shape it today; and a review of regulatory mechanisms that control how our coast is managed. Here you will find the background to both understand how our coast will change in our lifetimes and constructive ways to live with those changes.

List of contents

Figures, Plates, Maps vi

Foreword ix

Editors' Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

1. Hurricanes on the Connecticut Coast 1

2. Geologic History of the Connecticut Coast: Why the Connecticut coast looks the way it does 25

3. Modern Coastal Process: How the coast evolves 48

4. Evolution of the Connecticut Coast: The ways of sand and glaciers 72

5. Of Beaches, Rocks, and Marshes: Managing the Connecticut coast 109

Epilogue 119

Appendix A. Field Trips to the Coast 121

Appendix B. Storm checklist 133

References 136

Index 140

About the author

Peter C. Patton and James M. Kent

Product details

• Authors: James M. Kent, James M Kent, James M. Kent, Peter C Patton, Peter C. Patton, Peter C. Patton
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.1991
• EAN: 9780822311287
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1128-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Weight: 816 g
• Illustrations: 59 b&w photographs, 35 in color
• Series: Living with the Shore; Living with the Shore
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Angewandte Ökologie, Geologie und die Lithosphäre