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The Guadiana Estuary is a good example of rock bounded estuary which
consists of a single narrow estuarine channel with a meandering morphology
imposed by faults systems affecting the hard geology of the substrate. Only along the
last kilometers of the estuarine channel, the valley opens when Cenozoic
Guadalquivir Basin formations appear. In this area, the Guadiana develops a prograding
coastal system constituted by successive sandy barriers separated by salt
marshes which configure a wave dominated delta. This progradation is possible
thanks an interaction of the coastal agents which enhanced the silting in addition to a
good availability of sediments. This chapter explains an explanation of the dynamic
functioning of the open coastal environment, so as the resulting facies model.
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Guadiana estuary
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Springer