How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels (Southern Gateways Guides)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807855103 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"An Ideal Beach Read" according to C. Ebeling. This is beach geology 101 rendered in a pleasant and most fluent voice like the best of classic nature writing. The considerable information is meted out in a way that is easily absorbed. Before you reach the end, you are walking on the beach identifying runnels, plunging breakers, nail holes, swash and wrack lines and other exotica without running back to the book for help. You are no longer alarmed at black sand (it's sand of a different mineral base), you ha. A bit of propaganda The author has included information on the topics shown in the title which were interesting and informative however, it is clear that the author is anti-development at the beach and this message comes though time and time again. With this much propaganda against building on the coastline I think the book should have been free.. The Beach as a Book This slim volume should be packed by any reader heading off to thebeach in North Carolina. The underlying theme is vintage Pilkey, the prophetic gadfly of beach development. He and his co-authors want us to understand that we are loving the beaches to death, like children who capture wild things. Beaches are dynamic, explains Pilkey, and all our efforts to stabiize them in some permanent state for our perpetual enjoyment are ultimately doomed. Thanks to the cle
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. 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. In addition, coastal life forms large and small--from crabs and turtles to microscopic animals--are all discussed here. 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
Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University.Tracy Monegan Rice is a coastal geologist and ecologist working in private consulting.William J. . Neal is professor emeritus of geology at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan
Topics include the interaction of wind, waves, and sand in the formation of dunes and barrier islands; smaller features such as sea foam, bubble holes, and sharks' teeth; and strategies for conservation."A fine, accessible book about the beach one suited to reading by the shore." -- "Independent Weekly" . Three leading experts in coastal geology provide a guidebook to North Carolina beach characteristics for recreational beachgoers and naturalists