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Contents
1 A Cautionary Scientific Tale and an Introduction to This Book . . . .
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Stephen J. Culver
2 Buried Secrets of the North Carolina Coast, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
David J. Mallinson
3 Time and Tide Wait for No Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Andrew C. Kemp and Benjamin P. Horton
4 Barrier Island Breakdown: The Ephemeral Outer
Banks of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Stephen J. Culver
5 A Different Kind of Sea-Level Story from Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Peter R. Parham
6 What Lies Beneath? Revealing Coastal Processes
Through Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
J. P. Walsh
7 The Anthropocene, Wait, What? A Basque’s Coastal
Experience Helps to Figure It Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Eduardo Leorri
8 A Tale of Two Hydrogeology Problems
in Coastal North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Alex K. Manda
9 Drilling the North Carolina Coastal Plain – Discovering
What Lies Beneath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Kathleen M. Farrell
10 Earthquake-Driven Coastal Change: Ghost Forests,
Graveyards and “Komodo Dragons” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Andrea D. Hawkes