Abstract:Approximately 34 million people live within the North American Great Lakes Basin: ~32% of the Canadian population and ~8% of the US population. About 12 million of those people live on the Lake Erie coast of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Ontario. Unconsolidated Quaternary-age bluffs ranging in height from 1.5-55m dominate along 73km of the 123km Pennsylvania coast, and long-term records show that slow-continuous erosion is pervasive, and that rapid (but locally catastrophic) bluff failure is relatively inf… Show more
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