The role of biological processes and rates of downwearing due to grazing organisms on Mallorcan carbonate coasts (western Mediterranean)

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 144, Issue , 2006, Pages 161-181

  Fornós, Joan J ^a   Pons, Guillem X ^a   Gómez Pujol, Lluís ^a   Balaguer, Pau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioerosion; Biogeomorphology; Erosion rates; Limestones; Rock coast

Indexed keywords

BIOEROSION; CARBONATE ROCK; COASTAL EROSION; EROSION RATE; GRAZING;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33845689428     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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