Sedimentary record of environmental changes and human interferences in a macrotidal Bay for the last millenaries: The Marennes-Oléron Bay (sw France)

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-169

  Allard, Jonathan ^a   Chaumillon, Eric ^a   Bertin, Xavier ^a   Poirier, Clément ^a   Ganthy, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Bedrock control; Estuary; Holocene; Human impact; Mud drape; Sea level rise; Tidal channel; Tides; Very high resolution seismic

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEDROCK; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL CHANNEL;

FRANCE; MARENNES-OLERON BAY; POITOU-CHARENTES;

OSTREIDAE;

EID: 77951644166     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.181.2.151     Document Type: Article

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