Chapter 19. Coastal changes in the Baie des Anges in the terminal phases of the main Pleistocene and Holocene transgressive episodes (Côte d’Azur, France)

Introduction The offshore bars in the Baie des Anges have been well documented through the work of Anthony et al. (1998), who not only clarified the environmental and stratigraphic history of the deposits since 3000 years BP, but also their recent morphodynamic evolution as a result of coastal development. The authors describe bars made up mostly of gravels and explain that they belong to the prism of the high Holocene sea level. Thus, the sharp slowdown in the marine transgression from 4000 ...