Excerpt from Physical Regionalization of Coastal Ecosystems of the United States and Its Territories It is appropriate to review several existing coastal classifications, and to explain why these were not suitable to answer the stated objective of this work. It should be noted, however, that numerous ideas and pieces of information used in this classification were borrowed from many of those classifications reviewed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.