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Nature 453, 285-286 (15 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453285a; Published online 14 May 2008
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Charting the water's edge
Deborah Jean Warner1
BOOK REVIEWED-Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
by Mark Monmonier
University of Chicago Press: 2008. 224 pp. $25
Coastal margins are drawn as precise lines on maps, yet anyone who has walked on a beach knows that coastlines are unstable. Cliffs, rocks and sands change under the influence of tides, storms, tectonic movements, global climate change and other natural and artificial phenomena.
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