Living with the changing California Coast
By: Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, and Lauret Savoy ; with contributions by Reinhard Flick ... [et al.].
Contributors: Patsch, Kiki, 1977-; Savoy, Lauret E.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Shore protection -- California.; Coasts -- California.; Coastal zone management -- California.
Other titles: Living with the California coast.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. ed. of: Living with the California coast / edited by Gary Griggs and Lauret Savoy. 1985.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a perspective on the coast of California ; The evolution of the California coast ; Weather, climate change, sea level and the coastline ; Understanding the shoreline ; The erosion of the coastline ; Building or buying on the coast ; Responding to coastal hazards / Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, Lauret Savoy; title: California's coastal hazards : theory and practice / Charles Lester; title: The northern California coast: The Oregon border to Cape Mendocino / Lauret Savoy, Gary Griggs and Derek Rust. Point Delgada to Point Arena / Dorothy Merritts, Lauret Savoy, Gary Griggs and Robert Walker. Point Arena to San Francisco / Lauret Savoy, Dorothy Merritts, Karen Grove and Robert Walker. The San Francisco coastline / Gary Griggs, Kim Fulton and Lauret Savoy. San Francisco to Ano Nuevo / Jerry Weber, Gary Griggs, Ken LaJoie and Scott Mathieson. Ano Nuevo to the Monterey Peninsula / Gary Griggs and Kiki Patsch. The Monterey Peninsula to Morro Bay / Cheryl Hapke. Morro Bay to Point Conception / Antony Orme. Point Conception to Rincon Point / Robert Norris and Kiki Patsch. Rincon Point to Santa Monica / Antony Orme; title: The coast of southern California: Santa Monica to Dana Point / Douglas Sherman and Bernard Pipkin. Dana Point to the international border / Reinhard Flick; title: App. A. References; title: App. B. Geologic time line.