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Coastal Change And Beach Ridges Along The Northwest Coast Of Peru: Image And Gis Analysisof The Chira, Piura, And Colán Beach-Ridge Plains, Stacy Shafer Rogers, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kirk A. Maasch, Daniel F. Belknap, Peggy Agouris
Coastal Change And Beach Ridges Along The Northwest Coast Of Peru: Image And Gis Analysisof The Chira, Piura, And Colán Beach-Ridge Plains, Stacy Shafer Rogers, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kirk A. Maasch, Daniel F. Belknap, Peggy Agouris
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Since approximately 5200 cal yrs BP, five sets of eight to nine beach ridges were built and preserved along the northwestern Peruvian coastal desert (3o30'S-9oS). Potential ridge-building mechanisms in the hyper-arid environment of northwest Peru include El Nifio floods and storms, seismic activity, and sea-level change, as well as more gradualc limate changes that affectedc oastal morphologyI. mage processinga nd GeographicI nformationS ystem (GIS) methods were used to analyze aerial photographs and measure historic coastal patterns along three beach-ridge plains over a 37-year time period. Coastal features were digitized from image mosaics of each ridge plain at different time intervals …
Discussion Of: Lisa E. Wells, 1996. The Santa Beach Ridge Complex, Journal Of Coastal Research, 12(1), 1-17, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kirk A. Maasch, Daniel F. Belknap, J. B. Richardson Iii, H. B. Rollins
Discussion Of: Lisa E. Wells, 1996. The Santa Beach Ridge Complex, Journal Of Coastal Research, 12(1), 1-17, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kirk A. Maasch, Daniel F. Belknap, J. B. Richardson Iii, H. B. Rollins
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