Coastal Changes Rapid

Authors: David B Scott

Publish Date: 2005

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 253-255

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Abstract

There are many definitions of what might be called rapid events occurring on coastlines from sealevel movements caused by global warming and/or cooling 10’s to 1000’s of years to tsunamis that occur in seconds In this entry the types of rapid changes discussed will be of the more instantaneous nature from tsunamis qv to storm surges qv the type of damage done and what the events leave as a trace in the geologic record These phenomena were deemed sufficiently important by UNESCO/IGCP International Geological Correlation Program to form an IGCP project IGCP 367 that lasted for 5 years 1994–98 where over 500 people from 70 countries were involved working on almost every aspect of rapid change in the coastal zone Much of this entry will be drawn from the five volumes produced from that project Scott and Ortlieb 1996 Shennan and Gehrels 1996 MurrayWallace and Scott 1999 Scott 1999 Stathis et al 2000

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