World's Beaches by Pilkey, Orrin H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword by the Donor, The Santa Aguila Foundation Preface Part I: The Global Character of Beaches

1 A World of Beaches

Crossroads of History Avenues of Commerce Nature’s Most Dynamic Environment Varied Materials Obstacle Courses To Be or Not to Be Comber’s Delight or Nature’s Trash Collector? Sidebar: Beach Stuff A Natural Laboratory

2 Beaches of the World

What Is a Beach? Recipe for Making a Beach Classification of Coasts and Beaches Classifications and a Global Model Beach Sediments and the Plate Tectonic Setting Beaches as Landforms Climate and Types of Coasts Sidebar: The World’s Longest Beach We Stand on Their Shoulders Sidebar: Societal Classification of Beaches

3 Of What Are Beaches Made? Sediments

Beach Sediments Terrigenous Sediments Heavy Minerals Carbonate Sediments Other Beach Materials Sidebar: Terrigenous Beach Minerals Sidebar: Beach Mining Sidebar: Beach Rock

4 How Beaches Work: Waves, Currents, Tides, and Wind

The Most Dynamic Place on Earth Waves Currents (Longshore, Onshore, Offshore) Tides Other Water-Level Changes Wind Sidebar: Sea-Level Rise The Global Picture

5 The Form of the Beach: Crab’s-Eye and Bird’s-Eye Views

Beach Profiles: The Crab’s-Eye View Beach Plans: The Bird’s-Eye View

Part II: How to Read A Beach

6 The Beach Surface Up Close: Imprints of Tides, Currents, and Waves

Nearshore, Beach, and Tidal-Flat Features Swash and Backwash Features Sidebar: Foam Other Surface Features

7 Escape from Within: Air and Water in the Beach

Knee-Deep in Sand: Airy Beaches Air Escape Structures Watery Beaches and Water Escape Structures

8 Whichever Way the Wind Blows: Reworking the Beach Surface

Wind on Wet Sand and Mud Wet-to-Dry Transition Structures Wind on Dry Sediment Dunes and Dune Structures Sidebar: Sounds of the Sand Dune Plants: Surviving in a Desert Sidebar: Fulgurites

9 Beach Creatures: Tracks, Trails, and Traces

Beach Animals from Micro to Macro Macrofaunal Clues Evidence of the Habitat Role of Animals

10 Carbonate Beaches: Seashells and the Stories They Tell

Carbonate Shells, Skeletons, and Secretions Other Carbonate-Producing Organisms Other Carbonate Sediments Noncalcareous Plant and Animal Remains Shell Abundance Where Do Seashells Come From? The Significance of Broken Seashells Shell Rounding Orientation of Shells on the Beach Secondary Shell Color Shell Collecting: An Environmental Afterthought

11 Digging the Beach: Into the Third Dimension

Bedding Black Sands and Cross Bedding Burrows and Bioturbation Sidebar: Evidence of a Retreating Beach

Part III: The Global Threat to Beaches

12 Beaches at Risk: Sea-Level Rise and the Human Response

Coastal Engineering Other Damaging Activities Water Pollution Oil Spills Sidebar: A Toxic Green Wave on the Beach The Environmental Truths About Beaches

13 The Urbanized Beach: From Middens to the Maelstrom of Development

Glossary Selected References for Further Reading Index

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