Reply to the Discussion by John Nott on ‘Coarse‐sand beach ridges at Cowley Beach, north‐eastern Australia: Their formative processes and potential as records of tropical cyclone history’ by Tamura et al. (2018), Sedimentology,65, 721–744

Background Tamura et al. (2018) refined our understanding of formative processes that have resulted in a series of coarse‐sand beach ridges at Cowley Beach in north‐eastern Australia. Nott (2018) claimed that there are several shortcomings in the findings Tamura et al. (2018) presented. However, his...

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Published in:Sedimentology 2019-02, Vol.66 (2), p.769-773
Main Authors: Tamura, Toru, Nicholas, William A., Oliver, Thomas S. N., Brooke, Brendan P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beach morphology
Beach ridges
Beaches
Cyclones
Hurricanes
Morphology
Ridges
Sand
Sedimentology
Tropical climate
Tropical cyclones
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Summary:Background Tamura et al. (2018) refined our understanding of formative processes that have resulted in a series of coarse‐sand beach ridges at Cowley Beach in north‐eastern Australia. Nott (2018) claimed that there are several shortcomings in the findings Tamura et al. (2018) presented. However, his criticism mostly derived from his misunderstanding of the data and discussion presented in Tamura et al. (2018), which thus should be clarified here. This reply also reiterates how his method for estimating the magnitude of past tropical cyclones from beach ridges is inconsistent with our observations of beach morphology and beach‐ridge formative processes.
ISSN:0037-0746
1365-3091
DOI:10.1111/sed.12495