This collection of papers offers a new approach to nearshore and estuary studies, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary techniques and data integration. The important results of these studies are accompanied by full color images. Estuaries occur along many of the world¿s coastlines irrespective of geologic setting, energy regime, and depositional environment. They represent the interface between fluvial, coastal and marine environments and they contain the sedimentary record of geological changes among these systems. However, detailed case studies on the morphodynamics and sedimentary evolution of different estuarine environments are notably lacking. This book focuses on the use of high-resolution geophysical techniques, field observations and modeling to investigate the morphodynamics of estuaries on both glaciated and non-glaciated coasts and on different time scales. Papers in this book offer a new approach to nearshore and estuary studies, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary techniques and data integration. Results of these studies have important implications for estuary resource management and shoreline stability. This book will be of interest to sedimentologists, coastal and Quaternary geologists, environmental scientists, and coastal managers. Chapter 1. Towards an understanding of the morphodynamics and sedimentary evolution of Estuaries, Jasper Knight and Duncan M. FitzGerald 1(10) Chapter 2. High-resolution geophysical investigations seaward of the Bann estuary, Northern Ireland coast, J. Lyn McDowell, Jasper Knight and Rory Quinn 11(22) Chapter 3. A seabed classification approach based on multiple acoustic sensors in the Hudson River estuary, Frank O. Nitsche, Suzanne Carbotte, William Ryan and Robin Bell 33(24) Chapter 4. Analysis of land-cover shifts in time and their significance, Ramon Gonzalez, Roão M. Alveirinho Dias, and Óscar Ferreira 57(26) Chapter 5. Comparison of the hydrodynamic character of three tidal inlet systems, Elizabeth A. Pendleton and Duncan M. FitzGerald 83(18) Chapter 6. Suspended sediment fluxes in the middle reach of the Bahia Blanca Estuary, Argentina, Gerardo M.E. Perillo, Jorge O. Pierini, Daniel E. Pérez and M. Cintia Piccolo 101(14) Chapter 7. Temporal Variability in Salinity, Temperature and Suspended Sediments in a Gulf of Maine Estuary: Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire, Larry G. Ward and Frank L. Bub 115(28) Chapter 8. Morphodynamics and sediment flux in the Blyth estuary, Suffolk, UK, J.R. French, T. Benson and H. Burningham 143(30) Chapter 9. Controls on Estuarine Sediment Dynamics in Merrymeeting Bay, Kennebec River Estuary, Maine, U.S.A., Michael S. Fenster, Duncan M. FitzGerald, Daniel F. Belknap, Brad A. Knisley, Allen Gontz and Ilya V. Buynevich 173(22) Chapter 10. Coarse-grained sediment transport in northern New England estuaries: a synthesis, Duncan M. FitzGerald, Ilya V. Buynevich, Michael S. Fenster, Joseph T. Kelley and Daniel F. Belknap 195(20) Chapter 11. Morphodynamic behaviour of a high-energy coastal inlet: Loughros Beg, Donegal, Ireland, Helene Burningham 215(28) Chapter 12. Complex morpho-hydrodynamic response of estuaries and bays to winter storms: north-central Gulf of Mexico, USA, Gregory W. Stone, B. Prasad Kumar, A. Sheremet and Dana Watzke 243(26) Chapter 13. Effects of cold fronts on bayhead delta development: Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana, USA, Harry H. Roberts, Nan D. Walker, Alexandru Sheremet and Gregory W. Stone 269(30) Chapter 14. Evolving understanding of the Tay Estuary, Scotland: Exploring the Linkages Between Frontal Systems and Bedforms, R.W. Duck 299(16) Chapter 15. Sedimentological signatures of riverine-dominated phases in estuarine and barrier evolution along an embayed coastline, Ilya V. Buynevich and Duncan M. FitzGerald 315(20) Chapter 16. Paleodeltas and preservation potential on a paraglacial coast ?evolution of eastern Penobscot Bay, Maine, Daniel F. Belknap, Allen M. Gontz and Joseph T. Kelley 335(26) Index 361