美国科德角半岛地貌

科德角(Cape Cod)是美国马萨诸塞州东南部的一个半岛,面对浩瀚的大西洋,著名的伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)位于这个半岛的西南角。整个半岛犹如一个巨人弯曲的臂膀,从马萨诸塞州东南部的新英格兰陆地上伸向大西洋(图1)。半岛上,山丘蜿蜒成弧,象一个巨大的花瓣;海滨沙嘴弯如月,沙坝长如刀;海蚀崖陡峭,砾石滩发育;滨海平原上一排排小

INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PATTERN ON THE CAPE COD PENINSULA

Cape Cod peninsula, located in the southeast of the massachusetts state, was formed by the accumulation of the moraine after the glacier melted in the late pleistocene and early Holocene. The moraine knobs, moraine plane, accumulated sand and gravel coast, erosional coast such as sea scarp and coastal dune etc. geomorphological patterns were evolved on the Cape Cod peninsula. Some part of the coast were effectively protected and utilized fay the resident but most of it still not been protected.