{"product_id":"introduction-to-californias-beaches-and-coast-volume-99-9780520262904","title":"Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast: Volume 99","description":"From sunny beaches where thousands escape the summer's heat to wild and isolated rocky cliffs, California boasts one of the most spectacular and diverse shorelines in the world. Accompanied by numerous color photographs, diagrams, and maps, this guide explains why California's Pacific Coast looks and works the way it does. Gary Griggs explores the dynamic forces that have created beaches and the coastline through lively discussions of tectonics, the formation of waves, rain and wind, changing climates and sea levels, human impacts, and coastal erosion. The guide answers such questions as: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Where does all that sand come from?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Can we harness the energy of waves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- How fast does the coastline erode?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- What lies just off shore beneath the waves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Griggs\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Santa Cruz Coast: Then and Now\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiving with the Changing California Coast\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press), among other books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50325013102866,"sku":"9780520262904","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25803710-6524-4754-aa8c-5942a884cae1.jpg?v=1727678247","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/introduction-to-californias-beaches-and-coast-volume-99-9780520262904","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}