Talk:Coast
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hey guys if you're like me your lookin for examples well heres one Gulf Coast this is some of the states that it concludes of: mississippi, alabama, louisiana, and florida.
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[edit] Lengths of coastline
Many pages describe how long the coast or border of a particular state or nation is. In light of the work done by Mandelbrot in his paper How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension and the work done by Lewis Fry Richardson, I'm a little confused because it seems to me that stating a country's coast or border as being x kilometres means nothing unless it is specified how these things are measured and what scale of measurement is used. How is the standard the measurement done? For example, what does it mean when the CIA World Factbook states that certain country's coastline is a particular length? 18.248.5.226 05:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I would imagine that the CIA World Factbook would measure the coastlines (by satelite or whatever) in the standard units of measurements like kilometers or miles, having not noticed what units the figures are in I would presume that it is in the most common form of units D. BULL 12:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
There are many factors to be considered: is it measured at high water mark; do we measure up an estuary to the extent of the tide; are islands included; etc. Unless a person has a specialist need, maybe these things don't matter provided it is consistent for all countries. Then we have useful comparative information. In fact, there are standard techniques to estimate the distance - can someone explain them for us? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.8.214.91 (talk) 08:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] types of coasts
In the types of coasts section i think theres an error. it says an emerging coastline is where theres relative sea level drop, and says its a result of isostatic rebound, and local subsidence.... these are not the same thing are they? isn't local subsidence the cause of a submerging coast?
[edit] Archipelago
Why on earth is there a link to Archipelago associated with Arch, which is etymologically distinct, morphologically unrelated, and in no way connected to cliff erosion? Tsunomaru 12:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
- Because somebody wasn't paying attention when they reformatted the list from its earlier incarnation. Joe D (t) 20:36, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge from shore
Shore/shoreline/coast/coastline - all the same thing! 82.18.44.72 (talk) 05:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
I believe shore and coast are different. I am studying the Coast at the moment. The shore is the edge of the see whereas the coast is more than just that including Spits, Bays, Headlands etc. MikkyGay (talk) 15:09, 07 June 2008 (GMT)
