The Geomorphology of Rock Coasts

by Alan S. Trenhaile

This volume is the only comprehensive reference work in the English language to deal specifically with landforms and processes of rock coasts. The workings of mechanical wave action, chemical weathering, bio-erosion, frost, and mass movement are among the topics covered in the first section. The second half discusses the landforms resulting from these processes, such as cliffs, bays and headlands, and elevated marine terraces. The material is clearly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198232799
• ISBN13: 9780198232797
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"