| Autor: |
M. T. R. C. Prost, J-F. Faure, C. Charron, H.V. Borges, V. F. Santos, A.C. Mendes, A. Gardel |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />French<br />Portuguese |
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| Zdroj: |
Confins, Vol 34 |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1958-9212 |
| DOI: |
10.4000/confins.12830 |
| Popis: |
The Mouth of the Amazon River, considered to be the largest river on Earth, is a geomorphological macro-frontier between two coastal blocks : the Guiana Shield coastal plain (from Amapa to Venezuela) and the North Brazil block (Pará/Maranhão). It also constitutes a vast geological domain that links the Amapa Platform, the Marajo Basin and the Pará/Maranhão Platform. This Paper brings a synthetic view on this coastal compartment. It refers to a large number of multidisciplinary scientific results, and to remote sensing breakthroughs in environmental monitoring. The main purpose of the Paper is to enlight the role of the Mouth as a threshold in regional and local dinamics and processes. The geomorphological analysis relies on a taxonomy of facts and on dialectics between types and individuals. Final considerations are focused on environmental indicators and on current trends in coastal evolution in the Amazon. |
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