<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dimou, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilakis, E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antoniou, V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">An assessment of the coastal erosion at Marathon, East Attica (Greece).</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10th International Congress of the Hellenic Geographical Society, 22-24 October</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thessaloniki, Greece</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1579-1587</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div&gt;The 7 kilometers long coastline of Marathon Gulf (East Attica, Greece), has been chosen for this&amp;nbsp;study, in order to classify its coastal erosion, using the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) through GIS&amp;nbsp;technology, since several incidents of erosion have been identified during the past decades in the area.&amp;nbsp;The CVI index is used for assessing the vulnerability of a coast to an anticipated future sea-level rise.&amp;nbsp;It relates geological (coastal geomorphology, historical changes of coastline’s position, coastal slopes)&amp;nbsp;and oceanographic (wave height, run up and tidal range) variables in a semi-quantitative manner. We&amp;nbsp;combined different kinds of datasets extracted from high resolution panchromatic aerial photographs&amp;nbsp;of several time periods (1960-2010) and traced the contemporary shoreline by high accuracy&amp;nbsp;surveying with Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS equipment. The interpretation of all shorelines&amp;nbsp;required geo-statistical analysis in a Geographical Information System, in order to estimate the rate of&amp;nbsp;shoreline change for a period of 53 years.&amp;nbsp;Retreating rates were calculated for each section reaching the value of 0.6 m/yr. According to the&amp;nbsp;produced CVI values (10.61- 39.52), it is found that 46% of the coast has very high vulnerability, 20%&amp;nbsp;high vulnerability, whilst 29% have low vulnerability. The area named “Plesti” at the southern part of&amp;nbsp;the study area, a large segment at the coast of Nea Makri, the northern part of Agios Panteleimonas&amp;nbsp;beach and the eastern estuary of the Inois river are those with the higher risk. These conclusions are in&amp;nbsp;full agreement with the field observations.&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>