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Science 1 July 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4298, pp. 49 - 51
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4298.49
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Shoreline Forms and Shoreline Dynamics

ROBERT DOLAN 1, BRUCE HAYDEN 1, JEFFREY HEYWOOD 1, and LINWOOD VINCENT 2

1 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22903
2 Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180

Atlantic coast barrier-island shorelines are sinuous in plan view, with curvatures ranging in size from cusps to capes. The orientation of shoreline segments within the larger of these sinuous features (10 to 15 kilometers between apexes) is significantly related to shoreline dynamics.

Submitted on November 8, 1976
Revised on February 8, 1977


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