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The beaches are moving : the drowning of America's shoreline : with a new epilogue / Wallace Kaufman and Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr.

LIBRA GB460.A2 K38 1983
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kaufman, Wallace.
Contributor:
Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-2024.
Series:
Living with the shore
Living with the shore.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Beaches--United States.
Beaches.
Coast changes--United States.
Coast changes.
United States.
Physical Description:
viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Place of Publication:
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1983.
Summary:
Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you--all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system.
Notes:
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages [321]-326.
ISBN:
0822305747
OCLC:
9370860

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