Strand plain
State of Bahia
, Brazil.
A strand plain or strandplain is a broad belt of sand along a
tidal channels and inlets which cut through barrier islands are absent. Strand plains typically are created by the redistribution by waves and longshore currents of coarse sediment on either side of a river mouth. Thus, they are part of one type of wave-dominated delta.[1][2]
Examples of strand plains:
- Western Louisiana
- Eastern Texas
- West coast of Namibia
- South-east and south-west coasts of Australia, and in the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Letea and Caraorman, Danube Delta, Romania
- Kustvlakte, Suriname
- Cayo Costa, Florida
See also
References
- ^ McCubbin, D.G., 1982, Barrier-island and strand-plain facies. in P.A. Scholle, and D. Spearing, eds., pp. 247–279., Sandstone Depositional Environments: Memoir no. 31, Tulsa, Oklahoma, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- ^ Fitzgerald, D.M., W.J. Cleary, I.V. Buynevich, C.J. Hein, A.H.F. Klein, N. Asp, and R. Angulo, 2007, Strandplain Evolution along the Southern Coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Journal of Coastal Research. Supplemental issue no. 50, pp. 152-156.
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