Kelley new book reviewed
There are books about seashells and beach plants and birds, but no books about the geology of beaches. That is there were no books until Orrin Pilkey (Duke University), Bill Neal (Grand Valley State University), Andrew Cooper (University of Ulster) and Joe Kelley from the Department of earth sciences at UMaine wrote “The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline. The book, published by University of California Press, was recently reviewed in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16scibks.html?ref=science). There are hundreds of color photos, yet owing to a grant from the Santa Aguila Foundation, the book sells for under $30. Topics in the book range from the very small (bubble marks where air escapes from between the sand grains) to very large (the origin of beaches as a result of sea-level rise.
