The Role of the Geological Inheritance in the Present Littoral – Shelf Sedimentary Interactions

摘要

Normally, sedimentary processes in the littoral and the shelf (continental or insular shelf) are studied separately. However, there are complex interactions between them that cannot be ignored, because they are not isolated sedimentary environments. On the contrary, the fluxes of energy and materials are continuous between them. These feedbacks occur at the different geological scales, from long (centuries, thousands and millions of years), to medium (years, decades) and short (hours-days) time scale, and each one of these temporal scales has associated its spatial scale [1,2].