A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast: Including the Jersey Shore, Cape May, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Outer Banks

by Patrick J. Lynch

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast
Shelve It

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

A beautifully illustrated field guide to the Mid-Atlantic region, from the Jersey Shore to Cape Hatteras
 
The Outer Banks of North Carolina and the beaches of the Mid‑Atlantic Coast are among the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. This book is a richly illustrated field guide that surveys the geology, environmental history, natural history, and human history of a region that spans the eastern seaboard, from Sandy Hook in New Jersey south to Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
 
It is organized around environments, not particular locations. Included are the geology of beaches and barrier islands and the environmental history of the region as well as detailed looks at the natural history of beaches, dunes, maritime forests, coastal marshes, and estuaries. Also covered are issues involving human activity and climate change, which have become dominant forces shaping geophysical and biological environments.
 
This guide will enable users to walk into a salt marsh or onto a beach and identify much of what they see.
  • ISBN10 0300246463
  • ISBN13 9780300246469
  • Publish Date 13 July 2021
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 24 September 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press