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The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

USGS Open File Report 2004-1089

by: Tara L. Miller, Robert A. Morton, Asbury H. Sallenger, Laura J. Moore

Contents:
Introduction
GIS Data Layers
References
Acknowledgments
Contacts
Disclaimer

References

The following references discuss shoreline change pertaining to the states in the Gulf of Mexico or methods for investigating shoreline change. They are all cited in our full Gulf of Mexico report, National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Part 1, Historical Shoreline Changes and Associated Coastal Land Loss Along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (USGS Open File Report 2004-1043).

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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    B

  • Barnard, P.L., 1998. Historical morphodynamics of inlet channels, west-central Florida. MS Thesis, University of South Florida, Tampa.
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    C

  • Canis, W.F., Pilkey, O.H., Jr., Neal, W.J., Pilkey, O.H., Sr., Martin, D., and Belknap, D. F., 1985, Living with the Alabama-Mississippi shore: Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 215p.
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    D

  • Davis, R.A., 1994, Barriers of the Florida Gulf peninsula, in Davis, R.A., ed., Geology of Holocene Barrier Islands: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 167-205.
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    G

  • Gabrysch, R.K., 1984, Ground-water withdrawals and land-surface subsidence in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas: Texas Department of Water Resources Report 287, 64p.
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    H

  • Hardin, J.D., Sapp, C.D., Emplaincourt, J.L., and Richter, K.E., 1976, Shoreline and bathymetric changes in the coastal area of Alabama: Geological Survey of Alabama, Information Series 50, 123 p.
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    J

  • Jurkowski, G., Ni, J., and Brown, L., 1984, Modern uparching of the Gulf Coastal plain: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 6247-6255.

    K

  • Krabill, W., Wright, C., Swift, R., Frederick, E., Manizade, S., Yungel, J., Martin, C., Sonntag, J., Duffy, M., Hulslander, W., and Brock, J., 2000. Airborne laser mapping of Assateague National Seashore Beach. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, v. 66, p. 65-71.

    L

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    M

  • McBride, R.A., Penland, S., Hiland, M.W., Williams, S.J., Westphal, K.A., Jaffee, B.E., and Sallenger, A.H., 1992, Analysis of barrier shoreline change in Louisiana from 1853 to 1989, in Williams, S.J., Penland, S., and Sallenger, A.H., eds., Atlas of shoreline changes in Louisiana from 1853 to 1989: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series I-2150-A, p. 36-97.
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    O

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    P

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    R

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