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Author : John T. Wells
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Restless Ribbons of Sand written by John T. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orrin H. Pilkey
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322245
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands written by Orrin H. Pilkey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands is the latest volume in the series, Living with the Shore. Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular shorelines. As is true for all books in the series, it is based on the premise that understanding the changing nature of beaches and barrier islands is essential if we are to preserve them for future generations. Evidence that the North Carolina shore is changing is never hard to find, but recently the devastation wrought by Hurricane Fran and the perilous situation of the historic lighthouse at Cape Hatteras have reminded all concerned of the fragility of this coast. Arguing for a policy of intelligent development, one in which residential and commercial structures meet rather than confront the changing nature of the shore, the authors have included practical information on hazards of many kinds--storms, tides, floods, erosion, island migration, and earthquakes. Diagrams and photographs clearly illustrate coastal processes and aid in understanding the impact of hurricanes and northeasters, wave and current dynamics, as well as pollution and other environmental destruction due to overdevelopment. A chapter on estuaries provides related information on the shores of back barrier areas that are growing in popularity for recreational residences. Risk maps focus on the natural hazards of each island and together with construction guidelines provide a basis for informed island management. Lastly, the dynamics of coastal politics and management are reviewed through an analysis of the controversies over the decision to move the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and a proposed effort to stabilize Oregon Inlet. From the natural and historic perspective of the opening chapters to the regional discussions of individual barrier islands, this book is both a primer on coastal processes for the first time visitor as well as a guide to hazard identification for property owners.
Author : John T. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Restless Ribbons of Sand written by John T. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph T. Kelley
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813724600
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book America's Most Vulnerable Coastal Communities written by Joseph T. Kelley and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sea level is rising, and yet Americans continue to develop beaches with little regard. In this volume, a group of coastal geologists discusses the startling saga of ten U.S. East and Gulf Coast shoreline communities (plus Puerto Rico and some western Europe strands) and the problems created by their inevitable interaction with natural processes in this highly dynamic geologic environment. The authors discuss the geologic context of the hazards of each site as the history of societal responses and their environmental impacts. Response to the natural coastal processes that threaten lives and buildings is carried out in a context of local, state and national politics with fixed short-term engineering solutions (beach replenishment, seawalls) generally favored over longer-term approaches (moving back, prohibition of seawalls). This essential GSA Special Paper foreshadows the impending rise of sea level and the myriad of shoreline responses and political controversies it will provoke."--Publisher's description.
Author : Stephanie Flint
Publisher : Infinitas Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Restless Sands of Neel written by Stephanie Flint and published by Infinitas Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dragon without wings. A kid whose language he can't speak. And an ever-increasing amount of debt.... Troublesome raiders? Horses can outrun a raider. A kid with untamed beast magic whose fear of raiders frightens said horses? One overturned cart, countless bruises, and a bill of property damage later... Ro'nor might have descended from dragons, but he wasn’t born with wings or special powers, and he can't shift into their form. No bards will sing of his heroic deeds. His only magic is a gift for scrying. But his uneventful plans to foretell weather patterns in a distant desert are thrown from a far-too-literal cart when raiders spook his horses and he finds himself the de facto warden for a terrified kid only his guide can understand. According to her, the kid's family has been kidnapped by slavers. But with Ro’nor’s scrying skills and a careful redirection of the kid’s beast magic, he might be able to track the slavers and rescue the kid’s family. Can he evade the dangers of the desert, mount a perilous rescue, and earn a tale that rivals the songs of his ancestors? Adventure through the scorching deserts of Cirena... Read The Restless Sands of Neel today! ~ Each of these Legends of Cirena stories can be read stand-alone: ~ * The Wind Mage of Maijev (Livena) * The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear (Nuaka) * The Restless Sands of Neel (Ro'nor) * The Cursed Halls of Kalecen (Hahven) * The Scars of Her Past (Alia) * The Dragons of the Mist (Zynia) ~ Crossovers (It will help to have read the previous stories involving the featured characters): ~ * The Wind Mage and the Wolf - Features Livena (The Wind Mage of Maijev) and Nuaka (The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear) * The Trial of Bells and Blood - Features Hahven (The Cursed Halls of Kalecen) and Alia (The Scars of Her Past) KEYWORDS: fantasy, epic fantasy, young adult fantasy, YA fantasy, fantasy novella, horses, mystical creatures, mythical creatures, mage life, mages, magical quest, magical journey, fantasy mage adventure, fantasy vigilante, fantasy monsters, gods goddesses monsters pantheon, seer magic, fantasy deities, beast magic, desert fantasy, scrying magic
Author : Scott Hippensteel
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820363545
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sand, Science, and the Civil War written by Scott Hippensteel and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of sedimentary geology on the strategy, combat, and tactics of the American Civil War is a subject that has been neglected by military historians. Sedimentary geology influenced everything from the nature of the landscape (flat vs. rolling terrain) to the effectiveness of the weapons (a single grain of sand can render a rifle musket as useless as a club). Sand, Science, and the Civil War investigates the role of sedimentary geology on the campaigns and battles of the Civil War on multiple scales, with a special emphasis on the fighting along the coastlines. At the start of the Civil War the massive brick citadels guarding key coastal harbors and shipyards were thought to be invincible to artillery attack. The Union bombardment of Savannah’s key defensive fortification, Fort Pulaski, demonstrated the vulnerability of this type of fortress to the new rifled artillery available to the Union; Fort Pulaski surrendered within a day. When the Union later tried to capture the temporary sand fortifications of Battery Wagner (protecting Charleston) and Fort Fisher (protecting Wilmington) they employed similar tactics but with disastrous results. The value of sand in defensive positions vastly minimized the Federal advantage in artillery, making these coastal strongpoints especially costly to capture. Through this geologically centered historic lens, Scott Hippensteel explores the way sediments and sedimentary rocks influenced the fighting in all theaters of war and how geologic resources were exploited by both sides during the five years of conflict.
Author : Orrin H. Pilkey
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469619679
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book How to Read a North Carolina Beach written by Orrin H. Pilkey and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in this comprehensive field guide to the state's beaches, which shows visitors how to decipher the mysteries of the beach and interpret clues to an ever-changing geological story. Orrin Pilkey, Tracy Monegan Rice, and William Neal explore large-scale processes, such as the composition and interaction of wind, waves, and sand, as well as smaller features, such as bubble holes, drift lines, and black sands. In addition, coastal life forms large and small--from crabs and turtles to microscopic animals--are all discussed here. The concluding chapter contemplates the future of North Carolina beaches, considering the threats to their survival and assessing strategies for conservation. This indispensable beach book offers vacationers and naturalists a single source for learning to appreciate and preserve the natural features of a genuine state treasure. Southern Gateways Guide is a registered trademark of the University of North Carolina Press
Author : Matthew Seibert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000404641
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Atlas of Material Worlds written by Matthew Seibert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas of Material Worlds is a highly designed narrative atlas illustrating the agency of nonliving materials with unique, ubiquitous, and often hidden influence on our daily lives. Employing new materialism as a jumping-off point, it examines the increasingly blurry lines between the organic and inorganic, engaging the following questions: What roles do nonliving materials play? Might a closer examination of those roles reveal an undeniable agency we have long overlooked or disregarded? If so, does this material agency change our understanding of the social structures, ecologies, economies, cosmologies, technologies, and landscapes that surround us? And, perhaps most importantly, why does material agency matter? This is the story of the world’s driest nonpolar desert, pink flamingos, and cerulean blue lithium ponds; industrial shipping logistics, pudding-like jiggling substrates, and monuments of mud; galactic bodies, radioactive sheep, and the yellowcake of uranium. Put simply, this book dares readers to see the world anew, from material up. Atlas of Material Worlds offers this new relationship to our host environment in a time of mounting crises—accelerating climate change, ballooning socioeconomic inequality, and rising toxic nationalism—uniquely telling materialist stories for practitioners and students in landscape, architecture, and other built environment disciplines.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fish and Wildlife News written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fish and Wildlife News written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian D. Fath
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444641300
Total Pages : 2786 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ecology written by Brian D. Fath and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 2786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Ecology, Second Edition, Four Volume Set continues the acclaimed work of the previous edition published in 2008. It covers all scales of biological organization, from organisms, to populations, to communities and ecosystems. Laboratory, field, simulation modelling, and theoretical approaches are presented to show how living systems sustain structure and function in space and time. New areas of focus include micro- and macro scales, molecular and genetic ecology, and global ecology (e.g., climate change, earth transformations, ecosystem services, and the food-water-energy nexus) are included. In addition, new, international experts in ecology contribute on a variety of topics. Offers the most broad-ranging and comprehensive resource available in the field of ecology Provides foundational content and suggests further reading Incorporates the expertise of over 500 outstanding investigators in the field of ecology, including top young scientists with both research and teaching experience Includes multimedia resources, such as an Interactive Map Viewer and links to a CSDMS (Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System), an open-source platform for modelers to share and link models dealing with earth system processes
Author : Orrin H. Pilkey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231119702
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands written by Orrin H. Pilkey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although these islands are vastly different in many ways, they also share many common features.
Author : Patrick J. Lynch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300246463
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast written by Patrick J. Lynch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated field guide to the Mid-Atlantic region, from the Jersey Shore to Cape Hatteras The Outer Banks of North Carolina and the beaches of the Mid-Atlantic Coast are among the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. This book is a richly illustrated field guide that surveys the geology, environmental history, natural history, and human history of a region that spans the eastern seaboard from Sandy Hook in New Jersey south to Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is organized around environments, not particular locations. Included are the geology of beaches and barrier islands, the environmental history of the region, as well as detailed looks at the natural history of beaches, dunes, maritime forests, coastal marshes, and estuaries. Also covered are issues involving human activity and climate change, which have become dominant forces shaping geophysical and biological environments. This guide will enable users to walk into a salt marsh or onto a beach and identify much of what they see.
Author : L. A. Rivard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540688854
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Geohazard-associated Geounits written by L. A. Rivard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally conceived as a technical manual, but now offering the reader so much more, this timely work deals with various aspects of geohazards – surely an area of growing importance in this world of global warming. Using photogeology and remote sensing, Quebecois researcher Rivard’s work is unique in that the succinct text supports the illustrations, and is devised as a quick-reference, standardized presentation of 170 globally occurring photo-geomorphological units.
Author : Blair E. Witherington
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1561644900
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas written by Blair E. Witherington and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas" satisfies a beachcomber's curiosity within a comprehensive yet easily browsed guide covering beach processes, plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objects. Full-color photos. Maps.
Author : Eveline Dürr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137533498
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses written by Eveline Dürr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Based on empirical research, the book discusses topics such as belonging, emotional attachment to land, and new forms of environmental knowledge. The theoretical framework of the book is inspired by current debates among diverse conceptualisations of the environment and thus, of various ways of knowing, making sense of, and interacting with worlds. With this focus in mind, the book provides new insights into recent socio-cultural and environmental dynamics in the Pacific.
Author : Bonnie U. Gruenberg
Publisher : Synclitic Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1941700276
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Wild Horse Dilemma written by Bonnie U. Gruenberg and published by Synclitic Media LLC. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tirades and threats. Hyperbole and deception. Changing landscapes and immutable opinions. Living traditions and dead animals. The conflicts that rage around the wild horses of the Atlantic coast can be loud, confusing, and downright vicious. Wild horses have lived on these barrier islands for hundreds of years, and many people would like to see them remain. Horse advocates and horse detractors alike turn to research to support their claims, but often reach different conclusions from the same information. Engaging the reader at every turn of the page, Bonnie Gruenberg frequently breaks new ground as she separates fact from myth and exposes the roots of issues for the reader to consider. She does not flinch from probing questions: Are these horses wild or feral? Native or exotic? Were Chincoteague Ponies used in bioweapons research? Did the U.S. Coast Guard patrol East Coast beaches with Western mustangs in WWII? How does the condition of lactating mares predict environmental health? She weaves a story of ancient origins and current events, hard science and fiery passion. The result is the most comprehensive and factual reference on the wild horses of the Atlantic coast.
