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SHORE KARST [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Karst [se développant] en bordure des mers, dans la zone battue par les vagues et les embruns, et [comprenant] des grottes, des encorbellements ou visors, des trottoirs, des vasques, des lapiés, etc.

OBS

Aux actions de dissolution physico-chimiques de l'eau s'ajoutent les actions biologiques des algues [...], des gastéropodes et des mollusques en général lithophages [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
CONT

[...] el litoral de la región ofrece, en algunos de sus segmentos, interesantes ejemplos de karst litoral desarrollado a expensas de calizas, dolomías, conglomerados y calcarenita [...]

CONT

En las costas calcáreas existe una forma de carso litoral, caracterizada por la formación de oquedades en la parte descubierta por la bajamar.

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