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The Nature of the Outer Banks: Environmental Processes, Field Sites, and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke
Contributor(s): Frankenberg, Dirk (Author), Bennett, Betsy (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 0807872342     ISBN-13: 9780807872345
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Coastal Regions & Shorelines
- Travel | United States - South - South Atlantic (dc, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, Sc, Va, Wv)
- Travel | Special Interest - Ecotourism
Dewey: 363.7
Series: Southern Gateways Guides (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 7.4" L (0.45 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - North Carolina
- Cultural Region - South Atlantic
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes or sections of highway with them into the surf; sand dunes migrate with the wind; and storms open new inlets and dump sand in channels and sounds. A classic guide, The Nature of the Outer Banks describes these dynamic forces and guides visitors to sites where they can see these phenomena in action.

In the first section of the book, Dirk Frankenberg highlights three major processes on the Outer Banks: the rising sea level, movement of sand by wind and water, and stabilization of sand by plant life. In the second section, he provides a mile-by-mile field guide to the northern Banks, and in the final section, he alerts readers to the dangers of overdevelopment on the Outer Banks. In a new foreword for this edition, Betsy Bennett documents the ever-more-critical situation of these shifting sands.

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Contributor Bio(s): Frankenberg, Dirk: - Dirk Frankenberg (1937-2000) was professor of marine sciences and director of the Marine Sciences Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of several North Carolina nature guides.Bennett, Betsy: - Betsy Bennett is director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
 
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