CONTENTS 



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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS m 



LIST OF TABLES ix 



LIST OF FIGURES xi 



SUMMARY xvii 



1. INTRODUCTION 1 



2. ESTIMATES OF EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL RISE 5 



2.1 INTRODUCTION 5 



2.2 LITERATURE REVIEW 6 



2.3 THE NATURE AND ANALYSIS OF SEA LEVEL DATA 15 



2.4 RESEARCH NEEDS 17 



2.4.1 Use of Existing Data 18 



2.4.2 Need for New Data 19 



3. COMPACTION EFFECTS 25 



3.1 INTRODUCTION 25 



3.2 MEASURING COMPACTION 26 



3.3 IMPLICATIONS OF COMPACTION 29 



3.4 REMEDIAL MEASURES 29 



3.5 EXAMPLES 30 



3.6 RESEARCH NEEDS 31 



4. TIDAL RANGE EFFECTS 35 



4.1 INTRODUCTION 35 



4.2 LITERATURE REVIEW 35 



4.3 PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES 37 



4.3.1 Tidal Propagation 37 



4.3.2 Superelevation Effect ^0 



4.4 EXAMPLES ^2 



4.5 RESEARCH NEEDS 48 



5. STORM SURGE AND WIND-WAVE RESPONSE 51 



5.1 INTRODUCTION 51 



5.2 STORM SURGE 51 



5.3 WAVE CHARACTERISTICS 57 



5.4 RESEARCH NEEDS 60 



6. INTERACTION WITH NATURAL FEATURES AND CONSTRUCTED WORKS 63 



6.1 INTRODUCTION 63 



6.2 NATURAL FEATURES 63 



6.3 CONSTRUCTED WORKS 70 



6.4 COST OF COASTAL WORKS 85 



6.5 RESEARCH NEEDS 86 



