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This textbook shows all the existing knowledge about coastal geology and its implications for coastal management. In the last decades, the geological sciences have been supplying exciting information about the coastal systems, not only from its dynamics but also providing a sedimentary concept to understand and interpret the preserved coastal stratigraphical record. Furthermore, recent investigations have been focused on the prevention of coastal hazards like storms, tsunamis, or sea-level fluctuation. This discipline has an increasing interest after the expanding human activities around the coasts worldwide. The present trend is that many of the problems raised by the coast–human interaction must be resolved by using the Integrated Coastal Zone Management.
The chapters of Coastal Geology have a double-level structure. The first part of each chapter contains the necessary information for undergraduate courses studying coastal geology. The second part includes advanced information and examples to be used by graduate students and novel professionals.
PART I. GEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE COAST
1. The Coastal Geology through time
2. Time-Space scales
3. Oceanographical approach
4. Geomorphological approach
5. Sedimentological approach
6. Stratigraphical approach
7. Study methods and techniques
8. Types of coasts. Criteria in coastal classification
PART II. COASTAL PROCESSES
9. Wave processes
10. Tidal processes
11. Continental processes affecting the coast
12. Marine processes affecting the coast
13. Chemical processes
14. Biological processes
15. Extreme events
16. The moving particles
PART III. COASTAL SYSTEMS: DYNAMICS AND SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES
17. Wind- dominated systems. Coastal dunes
18. Wave-dominated systems. Barrier islands and beaches
19. Tide-dominated systems. Lagoons, estuaries, tidal flats and salt marshes
20. Fluvial-dominated systems. Deltas
21. Geologically-controlled systems. Rocky coasts and cliffs
22. Biologically-controlled systems. Reef coasts
PART IV. COASTAL EVOLUTION ON A GEOLOGICAL TIME FRAME
1. Tectonics
2. Sea level
3. Climate
4. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
5. Older coasts
PART V. THE HUMANS IN THE COAST: INTERACTION PROBLEMS AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT
6. The heritage of past times: impact of the human constructions on the coasts
7. Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management
8. Coastal Changes
9. Coastal Hazards
10. Marine and Coastal Policies
11. Marine Protected Areas
FINAL REMARKS
12. Future trends to the Coastal Geology
Juan A. Morales obtained his PhD in Geology in 1993 at the University of Seville. Since 2000, he works as a Professor of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology at the University of Huelva. He was Head of the Research Group of Coastal Geology from 1998 to 2016. He directed more than 20 projects for different companies, organizations, and administrations, which include the ports of Seville and Huelva, and the public enterprise for the ports of Andalucía, always in relation to coastal dynamics. He has made numerous contributions to the coastal dynamics of estuarine systems of the coast of Huelva (Guadiana, Piedras, Odiel, and Tinto) and the Bay of Cádiz, which are published in 4 books (author), 4 books (editor), 33 chapters, 40 articles in scientific journals of SCI, 53 in journals of national media and numerous national and international conferences. In 2019, he published his book The Spanish Coastal Systems.
