Product Description: The world's coastlines, dividing land from sea, are geological environments that are unique in their composition and the physical processes affecting them. At the dynamically active intersection of land and the oceans, humans have been building structures throughout history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book includes papers presented at the ASCE Specialty Conference on Coastal Hydrodynamics Conference, at the University of Delaware, June 28-July 1, 1987. The papers review the state of the art in our understanding of the hydrodynamics of the nearshore zone, covering such areas as shallow water wave statistics, nearshore currents, wave motions, and wave-structure interactions...read more