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 Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University. Pilkey and William J. Neal are editors of the Living with the Shore book series. His expertise is in basic and applied coastal geology, focusing primarily on barrier island coasts, with a secondary expertise in coastal zone management. He has a Ph.D. in geology from Florida State University and is director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines.
How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels (2004)
The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline (1979)
From How to Read a North Carolina Beach:
Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels :
Chapter 7
Conservation of Beaches
The previous chapters have demonstrated that there is a lot more to North Carolina’s beaches than meets the eye. The beaches evolve in a fascinating hodge-podge of biological and physical processes, modern and ancient, that we barely understand. The fact that there is so much yet to learn makes beaches all the more alluring.
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