Beach Systems of Balearic Islands: Nature, Distribution and Processes
| Autor: | Lluís Gómez-Pujol, Alejandro Orfila, Verónica Morales-Márquez, Joaquín Tintoré, Laura Pereda, Joan J. Fornós, Montserrat Compa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Balearic islands Disturbance (geology) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences business.industry 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Distribution (economics) Biota government.political_district Wave climate 01 natural sciences Oceanography Biogenic carbonate government business Geology Rip current 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | The Spanish Coastal Systems ISBN: 9783319931685 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-93169-2_12 |
| Popis: | The Balearic Islands coast contains 867 beach systems covering 10% of the coast reflecting the different controls of waves, sediments, geological inheritance and human disturbance. The average length of theses beaches are 169 m, raging from 10 m to more than 5 km, which implies that physical boundaries play a major role in beach length and morphology and wave attenuation; a moderate and seasonal wave climate and sediments composed predominantly of medium to coarse marine biogenic carbonate sands. It also describes the regional distribution, together with the occurrence of wave energy, beach sediments, bar systems and dynamics, rip currents, human disturbance and the influence of geological inheritance and marine biota. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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