Coasts: form, process and evolution

Introduction: The coastal zone ; Coastal geomorphology ; Historical perspective ; Temporal and spatial cycles ; Coastal systems ; Human impact on the coast ; Summary and outline of following chapters

Geological setting and materials: Historical perspective ; Plate-tectonic setting ; Sea-level variations ; Materials ; Paleoenvironmental analysis and sedimentary history ; Summary

Coastal processes: Historical perspective ; Sedimentary processes ; Wave processes ; Tides and tidal influence ; Other oceanographic processes ; Terrestrial and subaerial processes ; Biological processes ; Summary

Rocky coasts: Historical perspective ; Plate-tectonic setting and wave planation ; Cliff and shore platform morphology ; Processes and rates of erosion ; Cliff morphodynamics ; Summary

Reef coasts: Historical perspective ; Reef morphology and zonation ; Reefs in time and space ; Processes on reefs ; Morphodynamic models of reefs ; Summary

Beach and barrier coasts: Historical perspective ; Beach morphology ; Beach morphodynamics ; Beach and backshore change over decadal-century time scales ; Barriers and barrier islands ; Summary

Deltas and estuaries: Historical perspective ; Deltaic and estuarine process ; Deltaic-estuarine morphology ; Morphodynamic development of deltas ; Morphodynamic development of estuaries ; Summary

Muddy coasts: Historical perspective ; Tidal flats ; Tidal inlets and tidal creeks ; Salt-marsh and mangrove shorelines ; Salt-marsh and mangrove morphodynamics ; Summary

Morphodynamics of coastal systems: Models in coastal geomorphology ; Coastal systems ; Geomorphological change over time ; Modelling coastal morphodynamics ; Summary

Human activities and future coasts: Human interaction with the coast ; Human activities within the coastal system ; Tourism and the resort cycle ; Global environmental change ; Prospects.