Beach Erosion and Deposition on Dauphin Island, Alabama, U.S.A.
Douglass SL. 1994. Beach Erosion and Deposition on Dauphin Island, Alabama, U.S.A.. Journal of Coastal Research (JCR). 10(2):306-328
A study concerning the erosion and accretion of beaches on Dauphin Island, Alabama. Methods for monitoring and studying the rates of shoreline change involved observation, beach and sandbar profiles, analysis of aerial photographs, and sand size measurements. There are discussions concerning monitoring data, and the coastal structures, beachfill, ship channels, coastal engineering and coastal processes of Dauphin Island.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Douglass, Scott
- Units
- GUIS
- Keywords
- Accretion, Al, Barrier Islands, Bathymetry, Dauphin Island, Erosion, FL - MS, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Littoral Drift, Map, Monitoring, Physical Sciences, Sandbars, Shoreline Change