The Brazilian Amazon Coastal Zone is marked by impressive discharge of sediment and freshwater influence by the mouth of the Amazon River. An extremely wide continental shelf characterizes this coast, rolling plains are ...

It is commonly assumed in the high-resolution sequence stratigraphic analysis ofshallow-marine deposits (e.g., deltaic and shoreface settings) that the depositionalconditions of the system remain relatively constant during ...

Samborombón Bay is an extensive microtidal wetland located in the outer Río de la Plata estuary. Shoreline change rates (erosion or accretion) were quantified at six control areas situated along the bay's coastal area. ...

The coastal zone are transitional environments, where continuous changes at different temporal and spatial scales occur, which are related to several processes such as oceanographic, fluvial, climatic and anthropogenic. ...

Many worldwide coastal wetlands are facing erosion, severely putting at risk their noteworthy ecological functions. The Punta Indio coast, which bounds the Argentinean side of the middle Rio de la Plata Estuary, is ...

Economic costs associated to coastal erosion are projected in 45 sandy beaches in Chilean coasts. We compare mid-century (2026–2045) and end-of-century projections (2081–2100) of wave climate and sea-level rise (SLR) with ...