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Barrier Lagoon Coasts Sediment rich Rising sea level Transgressive vs. Regressive systems. Albemarle Sound. North Carolina Outer Banks Barrier Islands and Lagoon. Pamlico Sound. Cape Cod, sediment transport under bidirectional wave regime. Morphodynamics of barrier-lagoon system.
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Barrier Lagoon Coasts • Sediment rich • Rising sea level • Transgressive vs. Regressive systems
Albemarle Sound North Carolina Outer Banks Barrier Islands and Lagoon Pamlico Sound
Cape Cod, sediment transport under bidirectional wave regime
The Breach Model of barrier origin
Sediment response to sea level rise and changing slope of transgression surface
The overwash process, barrier rollover and longshore transport
Pleistocene Barriers compose the surface of transgression
Summary of Barrier-lagoon Sedimentary processes
Walthers Law and a geologic model of barrier-lagoon system… ultimately truncated by ravinement
Transgressive and Regressive settings