Land-sea correlation between Late Holocene coastal and infralittoral deposits in the SE Iberian Peninsula (Western Mediterranean)

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 4-11

  Fernandez Salas L M ^a   Dabrio, C J ^b   Goy, J L ^c   Diaz del Rio V ^a   Zazo, C ^d   Lobo, F J ^e   Sanz, J L ^a   Lario, J ^f  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Albor n Sea; Beach ridge progradation complex; Holocene; Infralittoral prograding wedge; Swath bathymetry

Indexed keywords

BEACH RIDGE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL SEDIMENT; HOLOCENE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LONGSHORE CURRENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; PROGRADATION; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 58249090251     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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