Introduction: The possible presence of confined bodies of standing water on early Mars has been postulated for many years, both as large oceans [e.g., 1-5] and as lakes associated with impact crater or intercrater basins [e.g., 6-10]. The northern ocean hypothesis was tested using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) elevations along two suggested shorelines, resulting in a fairly poor geopotent...

The over 3,000 kilometers of Great Lakes shoreline in Ontario is home to several million people. It is a rich complex natural ecosystem with a diversity of natural features and landforms ranging from steep vertical rock cliffs, sandy beaches and dunes, glacial till shorelines, to wetlands. The Great Lakes shoreline has also experienced tremendous land use pressures and human activities most not...

Shoreline erosion problems caused by global warming and sea level rising may result in losing of land areas, so it should be examined regularly to reduce possible negative impacts. Initially in this study, three sets of survey images obtained from the years of 1990, 2001, and 2010, respectively, are digitalized by using graphical software to establish the spatial coordinates of six major beache...

This study combines bathymetric, geomorphological, geological data and oil spill predictions to model the impact of oil spills in two accident scenarios from offshore Crete, Eastern Mediterranean. The aim is to present a new three-step method of use by emergency teams and local authorities in the assessment of shoreline and offshore susceptibility to oil spills. The three-step method comprises:...

To better understand the community-wide implications of coastal erosion and erosion management measures to minimize its impacts, we analyzed data on about 1200 properties in nine southeastern U.S. counties. Not only is erosion responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage each year, the threat of erosion, that is, merely being located in an erosion-prone area, significantly...

The study examines the shoreline (1990–2019) and nearshore morphological changes (seasonal) to understand littoral drift sediment budget variability. Shoreline change rate depicts erosion (− 0.06 m/year) in northern sector accretion (+ 0.12 southern sector. Seasonal from non-monsoon monsoon period signifies net 1.8 × 104 m3) 2.5 Although lost during is regained period, quantity of gain reduced ...

The reed Phragmites australis Cav. is aggressively invading salt marshes along the Atlantic Coast of North America. We examined the interactive role of habitat alteration (i.e., shoreline development) in driving this invasion and its consequences for plant richness in New England salt marshes. We surveyed 22 salt marshes in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, and quantified shoreline development, P...

Coastal development has severely affected habitats and biodiversity during the last century, but quantitative estimates of the impacts are usually lacking. We utilize predictive habitat modeling and mapping of human pressures to estimate the cumulative long-term effects of coastal development in relation to fish habitats. Based on aerial photographs since the 1960s, shoreline development rates ...

The coastal zone may be considered as the location where marine and land environments interact dynamically coexist with human societies. Globally, natural systems are being severely threatened by sea level rise related to climate change. outcome between dynamic relationship of processes, future predicted scientific reports, is vulnerability areas such sandy beaches, pocket beaches low-lying are...