CoastView - References and Acknowledgements

• Belderson, R.H., Johnson, M.A. et Kenyon, N.H. (1982). Bedforms. In : Stride, A.H. (Ed.), Offshore tidal sand, processes and deposits. Chapman & Hall, London, 27-57
• Castleden, R. 1996: Classic landforms of the Sussex Coast. The Geographical Association.
• Ellis N. 1983: Shore platform erosion on the Sussex chalk coast: comments on initial results. Brighton Polytechnic Geographical Society Magazine 10: 19-32
• Ellis N. 1986: Morphology, process and rates of denudation on the chalk shore platform in East Sussex. Unpubl. PhD thesis. University of Brighton
• Cundy A.B. ; Spencer C. ; Croudace I.W. ; Long A.J. ; Hill C.T. 2002: Sedimentary response of Pagham Harbour, southern England to barrier breaching in AD 1910. Geomorphology 46, no.3-4:163-176
  Abstract:
  This paper examines the evolution of Pagham Harbour, southern England following storm-induced breaching of a protective barrier in AD 1910. Stratigraphic studies of sediments collected from intertidal areas show the presence of a distinct stratigraphic horizon in the northeast of Pagham Harbour at ca. 0 to + 1.0 m ordnance datum (OD). Radiometric data indicate that this horizon is a 'reclamation surface' formed after land claim in AD 1846. Following marine flooding in AD 1910, sediment has accreted relatively rapidly (at a broadly constant rate of between 4 and 8 mm a-1), wave and/or tidal energy have decreased and extensive marshes have developed. An asymptotic reduction in sediment accretion rate through time, as predicted in various theoretical models of salt marsh accretion, is not observed. Over the entire Pagham Harbour area, the period between AD 1948 and AD 1986 has seen an average marsh loss of 0.0087 km˛ per year, which is relatively small in comparison with other more exposed sites in the local area. Historically breached sites such as Pagham Harbour are common around European coasts, and these provide important natural laboratories within which the medium-term (decadal to centennial) coastal response to barrier breaching, and to managed-realignment coastal protection schemes, can be assessed. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
  Available from University of Sussex library.
• Jennings S. and C. Smyth (1990) Holocene evolution of the gravel coastline of East Sussex. Proceedings of the Geological Association, 101 (3), 213-224. Jennings S. and C. Smyth (1990) Holocene evolution of the gravel coastline of East Sussex: reply to correspondence. Proceedings of the Geological Association, 101 (3), 306-308.
• The 1st Edition Ordnance Survey Maps at a scale of 6 inch to a mile (1:10560, published in the 1870s) for all areas of the East Sussex coast are available as hard copies from the Geography Reseource Centre at the University of Sussex. Scanned and georeferenced images of these files are also available.