Form-Process Relationships on Island Coasts.

Abstract

Variations in geometric properties and spatial arrangement of major coastal morphologic landforms (beaches, cliffs, rocky shores, and swamps) of the islands of Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent were compared to coastal process sectors established by variations in mean wave power levels. Multivariate analysis of variance results indicate that the spatial arrangement of coastal morphologic landforms cannot be predicted from wave power distribution alone. The results of statistical and probabilistic analyses demonstrate the collective and individual contributions of geometric and process variables within the general context of two process-response conceptual models. A significant amount of the variability in geometric properties of the coastal morphologic landform units is attributed to wave power distribution patterns. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0787595

Entities

People

  • Harry H. Roberts
  • Manual L. Hernandez-avila

Organizations

  • Louisiana State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Barbados
  • Data Science
  • Information Science
  • Islands
  • Landforms
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Power Distribution
  • Power Levels
  • Ridges
  • Terrain
  • Wave Power

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Regression Analysis.