Conditioning coasts

Coasts: form, process and evolution

The Fringing Reef Coasts of Eastern Africa

Sea-level changes through the Quaternary era have provided recurrent opportunities for the biosphere to significantly shape the coastal geomorphology of eastern Africa. Key agents in this shaping have been the calcium carbonate-fixing biota that have constructed the oceanfacing fringing reefs and produced the extensive backreef sediments that form the limestone platforms, cliffs and terraces th...

Bivalves Organic Pollution along Eastern Meditteranean Coasts

1 Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Department of Pesticides Control and Phytopharmacy, Laboratory of Pesticides’ Toxicology, 8 St. Delta Street, Kifissia, 14561 Athens, Greece, 2 Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering 34469, Maslak, Istanbul/Turkey 2 Department of Agriculture, Crop production and Rural Environment Analytical Chemistry and Pesticides...

Advances in Morphodynamics of Coasts and Lagoons

Coastal evolution due to natural and human-induced causes or factors can be rather variable on quite different temporal and/or spatial scales. Our capability to understand and especially predict this variability on the longer time scales is still limited. This can lead to misinterpretation of coastal change information, which hampers informed decision-making and the subsequent functional design...

Elliptic vortex patches: coasts and chaos

We investigate the interaction of ocean vortex patches with boundaries via the elliptic moment model of Melander, Zabusky & Stysek [13], under which vortex patches are approximated as elliptic regions of uniform vorticity. The interaction with a straight boundary is shown to reduce to the problem of an ellipse in constant strain, as previously investigated by Kida [9]. Interactions with more co...