Shoreline Erosion in the Upper Chesapeake Bay: Point Lookout State Park to Calvert Cliffs State Park, Maryland, July 16, 1989

Shoreline Erosion in the Upper Chesapeake Bay: Point Lookout State Park to Calvert Cliffs State Park, Maryland, July 16, 1989
ISBN-10
0875906222
ISBN-13
9780875906225
Category
Science
Pages
13
Language
English
Published
1991-01-08
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Authors
Orrin H. Pilkey, Christopher Zabawa, John Ernissee

Description

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 233. The field trip on Sunday, July 16, 1989, will visit shoreline reaches of the Chesapeake Bay estuary south and east of Washington, D.C. Shorelines included are beaches and spits, high bluffs, and lowland banks, as well as fringe marsh and lagoonal wetlands. Stops highlight patterns of development along the northern Chesapeake Bay shoreline, the problems of land loss, and several "solutions" to land loss.

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