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Coastal Environments of the Maritime Provinces
Author(s) -
Edward H. Owens,
Anthony Bowen
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
atlantic geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1718-7885
pISSN - 0843-5561
DOI - 10.4138/1926
Subject(s) - shore , geology , sediment , range (aeronautics) , oceanography , tidal range , physical geography , geomorphology , geography , estuary , materials science , composite material
This review of the coastal process and morphology characteristics of the Maritime Provinces provides a general summary of existing information and data for an area that has a wide variety of shoreline types, geologic units, and oceanographic conditions. The general coastal trends of the area are controlled by the regional southwesterly-northeasterly trending structures associated with the Appalachian system. Superimposed on this basic geologic framework, the contrasting shoreline types result from the high degree of variability in local geology, relief, wave-energy levels, tidal range and sediment availability. This variability provides the basis for discussion of the shorelines of the Maritime Provinces. Twenty-two distinct coastal environments are systematically defined and described.

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