Long-term shoreline change rates for Rincon, Puerto Rico 1936-2006 (lt_transects.shp)
Description
The 8 km of shoreline from Punta Higüero to Punta Cadena in Rincón, Puerto Rico is experiencing long-term coastal erosion. This study documents historical shoreline changes at Rincón for the period 1936-2006. Thirteen historical shoreline positions were compiled from existing data, new orthophotography, and GPS field surveys. Shoreline vectors represent the high water line at the time of the survey.
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.047c7a56-b023-4e2a-b2e8-e702776f6432.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/htmldocs/data_catalog.html |
Tags
- usgs-047c7a56-b023-4e2a-b2e8-e702776f6432
- coastal-processes
- puerto-rico
- oceans
- beach-erosion
- punta-higuero
- whsc
- beach-nourishment
- cmgp
- u-s-geological-survey
- long-term-shoreline-change
- geospatial-datasets
- erosion
- geoscientificinformation
- linear-regression-rate
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- shoreline-change-rate
- carribbean
- shoreline-accretion
- usgs
- shoreline
- woods-hole-science-center
- antilles
- historic-shoreline
- marine-geology
- punta-cadena
- rincon
- transect