Dynamics of a northern barrier beach: Nauset Spit, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Article

Leatherman, SP, Zaremba, RE. (1986). Dynamics of a northern barrier beach: Nauset Spit, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. . GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN, 97(1), 116-124. 10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<116:DOANBB>2.0.CO;2

cited authors

  • Leatherman, SP; Zaremba, RE

authors

abstract

  • In general, the barriers have been narrowing during the past century, and bayshore accretion has not been equal to ocean shoreline erosion rates. Massive washovers eventually become the sites of new dunes, often at the expense of marshes in the cyclic events of barrier evolution.-from Authors

publication date

  • January 1, 1986

published in

start page

  • 116

end page

  • 124

volume

  • 97

issue

  • 1