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Reply to the Discussion by John Nott on ‘Coarse‐sand beach ridges at Cowley Beach, north‐eastern Australia: Their formative processes and potential as records of tropical cyclone history’ by Tamura et al . (2018), Sedimentology ,65, 721–744
Author(s) -
Tamura Toru,
Nicholas William A.,
Oliver Thomas S. N.,
Brooke Brendan P.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sedimentology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.494
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1365-3091
pISSN - 0037-0746
DOI - 10.1111/sed.12495
Subject(s) - geology , ridge , tropical cyclone , beach ridge , oceanography , archaeology , paleontology , shore , geography
Background Tamura et al . (2018) refined our understanding of formative processes that have resulted in a series of coarse‐sand beach ridges at Cowley Beach in north‐eastern Australia. Nott (2018) claimed that there are several shortcomings in the findings Tamura et al . (2018) presented. However, his criticism mostly derived from his misunderstanding of the data and discussion presented in Tamura et al . (2018), which thus should be clarified here. This reply also reiterates how his method for estimating the magnitude of past tropical cyclones from beach ridges is inconsistent with our observations of beach morphology and beach‐ridge formative processes.