C1.2 Coastal Processes
Coastline as a geodynamic system. Types of waves, currents and transmission of wave energy to coastal rocks. Geological structure and coastal geomorphology. Coastline classification. Erosional and depositional coastal landforms. Parametrization of coastal landforms – morphometry. Sediments: transport mechanisms, composition, classification, statistical analysis and environmental interpretation. Technologies for monitoring coastal erosion. Eustacy, isostacy, tectonics and shoreline migration; uplift and subsidence. Techniques of paleogeographic reconstruction of coastlines. Coastlines of Greece: past, present and future. The above topics will be covered in the following order:
- Introduction: content description and brief review of costal processes
- Factors of shoreline formation: geological and hydrodynamic
- Criteria of shoreline classification
- Sedimentological methods for shoreline studies
- Global and regional sea level fluctuations: relative and absolute
- Remote sensing methods for monitoring coastal physiography
- Methods of paleo-shoreline reconstruction – coastal paleogeography
- The dynamics of the shorelines in Greece