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Holocene Coastal Sedimentation in a Rocky Environment: Geomorphological Evidence from the Aran Islands and Galway Bay (Western Ireland)
- Source :
- Journal of Coastal Research. 344:772-792
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Coastal Education and Research Foundation, 2018.
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Abstract
- Erdmann, W.; Scheffers, A.M., and Kelletat, D.H., 2018. Holocene coastal sedimentation in a rocky environment: Geomorphological evidence from the Aran Islands and Galway Bay (western Ireland). Rocky shores predominantly comprising coarse gravel and boulders are a neglected area of research, in part because of the difficulty in undertaking laboratory analyses on such environments. This paper is concerned with the geomorphology of the deposition of exceptional large boulders in cliff-top positions along the Aran Islands' Inishmaan, Inishmore, and Inisheer coast. These deposits are compared with other depositional units such as isolated finer sediment archives and tonguelike washover features associated with small to medium-sized boulders. Micromorphological signatures from limestone dissolution onshore and bioerosive patterns from the tidal frame were also investigated, with particular consideration of the relative age of boulder movement. Field studies included near-time inspection of the transpor...
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecology
Sediment
Sedimentation
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Deposition (geology)
Sedimentary depositional environment
Rocky shore
Oceanography
Bay
Geology
Holocene
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Earth-Surface Processes
Water Science and Technology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15515036 and 07490208
- Volume :
- 344
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Coastal Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9942cadad7002f55d08b40f3e4c72df5