Emergence and evolution of Barbados [electronic resource] / by Robert C. Speed, Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Hai Cheng, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota ; edited by Christine Speed, Richard Sedlock, and Lawrence Andreas.

"Chapter 1 shows that the windward slope of Barbados and its terraced morphology evolved principally by wave erosion during uplift and eustatic oscillation, rather than by biohermal growth. Chapter 2 describes the interplay of erosion and limestone deposition during eustatic oscillation over a span...

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