UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN MARINE SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Application Oriented Subject - Coastal Geoenvironment

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Introduction - nature of the shore line - coastal erosion, sediment deposition and transport-Cliff erosion-storms and coastal erosion - strategies for limiting cliff erosion - emergent and submergent coastlines - causes of changes in shore and elevation - wave cut platforms - Drowned valleys.

Unit II

Present and future sea level trends-difficult coastal environments - barrier islands - cost of construction in high energy environments-land reclamation from estuaries - recognition of coastal hazards.

Unit III

Definition, meaning and scope of coastal regulations-sustainable coastal zone management-river input to the ocean system - Man's influence on river input to the ocean system and comparison of pathways in the coastal zone-land water interfce.

Unit IV

International initiatives for coastal zone protection - defence of the coastal areas and coastal zone management - principles - bases for decisions on coastal zone development - Essential national and international linkages.

Unit V

Planning and management of coastal zone - coastal zone regulations in the world and in India - Success and failures of coastal zone management.

Books Recommended

Coastal and estuarine sediment dynamics by Dyer.K.R, John Wiley and Sons.

The waters of the sea by Groen, P., Van Nostrand.

Sedimentology - process and product by Leeder, M.R., Allen and Unwin.

An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology by J, Pethick, Edward Arnold.

Tides, Surges and Mean Sea Level by Pugh, D.T., Wiley.

The waters of the sea by P.Groen., Van Nostrand.

Satellite Oceanography by Robinson, I.S., Ellis Horwood.