Wave attenuation was studied in a coastal mangrove system in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
on the coast north of Do Son. From sea towards land the study area consisted of a bare …

Cheniers and chenier plains have been studied in many coastal regions throughout the
world. An inventory of the investigations currently being carried out is presented in this and …

Sediment dynamics were studied in a mangrove system in the Ba Lat estuary of the Red
River, Vietnam. The study area was situated on a riverbank, which consisted of a bare mudflat …

The dispersal of Amazon mud reaches from the mouth of the Amazon river to the Orinoco
delta and to the eastern Caribbean, a distance of more than 1500 km. The present dispersal …

Publisher Summary The chapter explains the geomorphology and sedimentology of mangroves.
Mangroves are tidal forest ecosystems in sheltered saline to brackish environments. …

The coastal development of the Guianas is dominated by extensive, shoreface-attached
and alongshore westward migrating mudbanks. The behaviour of these mudbanks is mainly …

The Holocene coastal plain of Suriname is a chenier plain. Its actual sedimentological
development has been studied during three field-work periods (1966, 1967/1968, 1972). Clay is …

The mangrove belt along the coast of the three Guianas, South America, forms a unique
ecosystem and acts efficiently as a natural soft coastal defence structure. The general …

The Holocene coastal plain of Suriname is part of the extensive chenier plain between the
Amazon River and the Orinoco River. The development began approximately 6000 yrs BP …

The problems in mapping the mangrove shoreline of French Guiana are reviewed. The
present variability of the coastline due to the shifting mudbanks with Avicennia mangroves on …