Rate of Post-Hurricane Barrier Island Recovery

• Main Author: Hammond, Brianna
• Other Authors: Houser, Chris, Bishop, Michael, Giardino, Rick
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: barrier island; coastal geomorphology; hurricane recovery; Barrier Island; Low Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155435

Barrier island foredunes are key indicators of the rate of island transgression, in which small dunes exhibit rapid transgression through washover and breaching, and large dunes exhibit controlled transgression in response to sea level rise. Recent evidence suggests that the largest foredunes at San...