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Author : Barnes, P.W.
Date : 1990
Title : Effects of elevated temperatures and rising sea level on Arctic coast
Publication : Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
Issue : 4(1):
Page(s) : 21-28
Abstract
Coastal processes are presently a balance between the influence of ice and the action of waves and currents. Climatic warming and rising sea levels would decrease the impact of ice processes and expand the role of waves and currents at the coast. Rates of shoreline retreat of the existing low coastal plain would increase, producing a transgressive erosional surface. The beaches and barrier islands presently nourished by ice push processes would decay and disappear. Increased delta sedimentation would probably be masked by a concomitant sea level rise.
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