Late Holocene Spit Evolution on Centennial Timescales in the Southeast Delaware Bay, USA

• Main Author: Phillip, Ryan Eli
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: CCU Digital Commons 2018
• Subjects: Centennial; Coastal Geology; Holocene; Sedimentology; Spit; Storms; Geology; The Spit; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/etd/108; https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1160&context=etd

The relationship between barrier spit growth and longshore drift is well established. However, the role of storm activity in spit evolution on an intermediate (centennial) timescale is more of a mystery due to a knowledge gap between decadal-scale shoreline processes and millennial-scale stratigraph...