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Additional Resources

Related Works

Buster, N.A. and Morton, R.A., 2011, Historical bathymetry and bathymetric change in the Mississippi-Alabama coastal region, 1847-2009: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3154, 1 sheet, 13 p. pamphlet, available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3154/.

Flocks, J.G., Kelso, K.W., Twichell, D.C., Buster, N.A., and Baehr, J.N., 2011, Offshore sand-shoal development and evolution of Petit Bois Pass, Mississippi-Alabama barrier islands, Mississippi, USA, in Wang, Ping, and others, eds., The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2011—Miami, Florida, USA, 2 May–6 May 2011: International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, 7th, Miami, Fla., 2011, v. 3, p. 2170–2183. [Also available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814355537_0163.]

Morton, R.A., 2007, Historical Changes in the Mississippi-Alabama barrier islands and the roles of extreme storms, sea level, and human activities: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007 1161, available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1161/.

Morton, R.A., Miller, T.L., and Moore, L.J., 2004, National assessment of shoreline change—Part 1, Historical shoreline changes and associated coastal land loss along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004 1043, 44 p., available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1043/.

Morton, R.A., 2008, Historical changes in the Mississippi-Alabama barrier-island chain and the roles of extreme storms, sea level, and human activities: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 24, no. 6, p. 1587 1600. [Also available at https://dx.doi.org/10.2112/07-0953.1.]

Twichell, D.C., Flocks, J.G., Pendleton, E.A., Baldwin, W.E., 2013, Geologic controls on regional and local erosion rates of three northern Gulf of Mexico barrier island systems: Journal of Sedimentary Research, Special Issue, no. 63, p. 32-45 [Also available at https://dx.doi.org/10.2112/si63-004.1.]

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