Sand and Gravel Spits (eBook)

Evolution of sand spits along the Caribbean coast of Colombia: natural and human influences.- Patterns of sand spit development and their management implications on deltaic, drift-aligned coasts: the cases of the Senegal and Volta River delta spits, West Africa.- El Paramo Transgressive Gravel Spit, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina.- Gravel spit-inlet dynamics: Orford Spit, UK.- Aeolian sand invasion: georadar signatures from the Curonian Spit dunes, Lithuania.- The joint history of Tróia peninsula and Sado ebb-delta.- The Historical Evolution of the Tindari-Marinello Spit (Italy - Sicily).- Anthropogenic influence on Spit Dynamics at Various Timescales: Case Studie in the Bay of Cadiz (Spain).- The Development and Management of the Dingle Bay Spit-Barriers of Southwest Ireland.- Polish spits and barriers.- Tidal Flat-Barrier Spit Interactions in a Fetch-Limited, Macro-Tidal Embayment, Lubec, Maine, USA.- Sandy spits and their mathematical modeling.- Spits on the French Atlantic and Channel coasts: morphological behaviour and present management policies.- The sand spits of the Rhône River delta: formation, dynamics, sediment budgets and management.- Long-, mid- and short-term evolution of coastal gravel spits of Brittany, France.- Morphological characterization and evolution of Tahadart littoral spit, Atlantic coast of Morocco.- Geomorphology and internal sedimentary structure of a landward migrating barrier spit (Southern Sylt/ German Bight): Insights from GPR surveys.- Morphology and the Cyclic Evolution of Danube Delta Spits.