Historical and recent shore erosion along the Colombian Caribbean Coast

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dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Coastal Research (Coastal Erosion)
dc.contributor.authorCorrea-Arango, Ivan D.spa
dc.contributor.authorAlcántara-Carrió, Jspa
dc.contributor.authorGonzález R., D.Aspa
dc.contributor.departmentUniversidad EAFIT. Departamento de Geologíaspa
dc.contributor.eafitauthorIvan D. Correa-Arango (icorrea@eafit.edu.co)spa
dc.contributor.researchgroupCiencias del Marspa
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-12T21:05:25Z
dc.date.available2014-05-12T21:05:25Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThe analysis of historical charts, aerial photographs, satellite images and fieldwork provides a general picture of the magnitudes, rates and some of the possible causes of the main shoreline changes occurred along the littoral since 1794 until present. Net littoral accretion took place mostly on localized deltaic zones, but cliff and beach retreat has been by far the dominant trend in this coast, particularly along the coastline to the south of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Data concerning the Guajira Peninsula and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta shores suggest a coastline retreat of 20-30 m in the last century, while for the southern Caribbean, between the Magdalena delta and the Gulf of Urabá, accurate charts of XVIII-XIX centuries evidence littoral retreat up to 12 km and maximum rates of erosion up to 40 myr-1 at some areas. Shore erosion and consequent flooding along the Caribbean coast of Colombia had induced important land losses, both in non-developed and developed areas, and is impacting severely the infrastructure of all the inhabited littoral sectors. Available data for the most critical areas demonstrates that natural instability and/or pre-existing erosive trends are facilitated by soft lithologies and were dramatically accelerated in the last eight decades by intensive human interventions, including the chaotic building up of hard rock coastal defenses, the diversion of low river courses and the intensive beach and river sand extraction.eng
dc.identifier.citationCORREA, I. D.; ALCÁNTARA-CARRIÓ, J. and GONZÁLEZ R, D. A. 2005. Historical and Recent Shore Erosion along the Colombian Caribbean Coast. Journal of Coastal Research, (Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting in Marine Sciences), 52 – 57. Valencia -– Spain, ISSN 0749-0208spa
dc.identifier.issn0749-0208
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/1603
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherCOASTAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Coastal Research(Coastal Erosion), SI 49, pp 52-57eng
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/25737404
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccesseng
dc.rights.localAcceso restringidospa
dc.subject.keywordCoastal retreateng
dc.subject.keywordShoreline changes,eng
dc.subject.keywordMagdalena R. Delta,eng
dc.subject.keywordPetrologyeng
dc.subject.keywordSediments (geology)eng
dc.subject.keywordCoast changeseng
dc.subject.keywordLandformseng
dc.subject.keywordCliffseng
dc.subject.lembPETROLOGÍAspa
dc.subject.lembSEDIMENTOS (GEOLOGÍA)spa
dc.subject.lembEROSIÓN COSTERAspa
dc.subject.lembRELIEVE TERRESTREspa
dc.subject.lembACANTILADOSspa
dc.titleHistorical and recent shore erosion along the Colombian Caribbean Coasteng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleeng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioneng
dc.typepublishedVersioneng
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