期刊
JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH
卷 25, 期 3, 页码 711-722出版社
COASTAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.2112/08-1007.1
关键词
Coastal accretion; coastal erosion; ecological impact; historical charts; lagoons; military construction; reef islands
资金
- Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (United States)
Reef islands of Palmyra Atoll in the northern Line Islands, equatorial Pacific Ocean, underwent mainly minor natural changes in shape and size between 1874 and 1940. Many major changes occurred between 1940 and 1945 when military construction created a dredged channel into the lagoon, enlarged several islands, joined most islands around the lagoon system into a continuous roadway, constructed a causeway separating two lagoons, and created several new islands. Overall, land area approximately doubled and land volume approximately trebled during this period, and the construction affected water circulation between reef flats and lagoons. Since 1945, the atoll has been largely uninhabited, construction and most maintenance of the newly-created shoreline has ceased, and coastlines of larger islands have simplified by infilling of bays and erosion of promontories, at net rates of up to 1.8 m/y. Narrower land masses have been broken into multiple smaller arcuate islands with intervening shallow channels. Sediment moves mainly westward along ocean coasts, into lagoons on lagoon coasts, and via tidal currents where causeways have been breached. In the east, Barren Island appeared and began growing from natural causes well before military construction. After purchase by The Nature Conservancy, the atoll was designated a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge in 2001. This protection offers the opportunity to observe coastal processes operating in the absence of the efforts to protect infrastructure typically associated with inhabited atolls.
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