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2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

North America, Coastal Geomorphology

verfasst von : Douglas J. Sherman

Erschienen in: Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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The shores of the North American continent span approximately 55° of latitude and 100° of longitude. The continent is bounded by four major coastal regimes associated with the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans, and the Gulf of Mexico. The length of open ocean coast, excluding nonbarrier islands, exceeds 110,000 km, and is much longer if the Great Lakes, embayments, lagoons, and islands are included. The coastal morphology includes all of the major coastal types described in Shepard’s (1937) classification. There are mangrove and coral systems in the southern reaches of the continent, and ice-dominated systems in the north. The common occurrence of fjords and rias attests to the delayed response of most of the North American coast to glacial processes and eustatic and isostatic sea-level changes. …

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Metadaten
Titel
North America, Coastal Geomorphology
verfasst von
Douglas J. Sherman
Copyright-Jahr
2005
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Buch
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-1903-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4020-3880-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2005

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3880-1_230