Sea Cliffs, Beaches, and Coastal Valleys of San Diego County: Some Amazing Histories and Some Horrifying Implications

By Francis P. Shepard and Gerald G. Kuhn

Book Overview

California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area of San Diego County from the nineteenth century to the present. An invaluable resource for oceanographers, geologists, meteorologists, coastal engineers, property owners, developers, and planning and regulatory agencies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520051181
• ISBN13: 9780520051188
• Release Date: July 1984
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Timely and Topical

As the "killer storms" lash California, those in search of some perspective would do well to check out this book. The authors conclude that most of the development in San Diego county took place during a relatively dry period in recent history (1940-73). The authors believe that this bodes poorly for houses built on the sea shore. As with all books that prognosticate horrific implications for the near (or far) future, one must take such theses with a grain of salt... human ingenuity (or high property values) can adapt to changed circumstances, whatever they may be.