Nature of the Outer Banks: Environmental Processes, Field Sites, and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke

by Dirk Frankenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807845426
• ISBN13: 9780807845424
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 7.5"