The Nature of the Outer Banks: Environmental Process, Field Sites and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke (Southern Gateways Guides) - Softcover

Book 5 of 34: Southern Gateways Guides

Frankenberg, Dirk

 
9780807872345: The Nature of the Outer Banks: Environmental Process, Field Sites and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke (Southern Gateways Guides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807872342 ISBN 13: 9780807872345
Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2012

Synopsis

North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the 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. A classic guide, The Nature of the Outer Banks describes these dynamic forces and guides visitors to sites where they can see these phenomena in action.

In the first section of the book, Dirk Frankenberg highlights three major processes on the Outer Banks: the rising sea level, movement of sand by wind and water, and stabilisation of sand by plant life. In the second section, he provides a mile-by-mile field guide to the northern Banks, and in the final section, he alerts readers to the dangers of overdevelopment on the Outer Banks. In a new foreword for this edition, Betsy Bennett documents the ever-more-critical situation of these shifting sands.

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About the Author

Betsy Bennett is director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

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Publisher
University North Carolina Pr
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807872342
ISBN 13 
9780807872345
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
176