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7. Different types of spits page 89
8. Coastal features formed by series of beach ridges 92
9. Coastal dunes 95
10. Blakeney Point, Norfolk (after Steers) 104
11. Marshes and estuaries of Flanders and Zeeland (the Nether-
lands) 		107
12. Sedimentation and evolution of marshes and estuaries 108
13. Submerged deltas. The effect of subsidence in deltaic beds 111
14. Deltas 114
15. Bikini atoll 121
16. Annular reefs with shallow lagoons 125
17. Faros, barrier reefs, and fringing reefs 127
18. Sections through reefs. Theories of formation 133
19. Ria coasts 155
20. Sherm and drowned tunnel-valley 156
21. Fjord and glacial lowland coasts 159
22. Coasts with longitudinal structures 165
23. Coasts with longitudinal and transverse structures 167
24. Coasts with transverse, oblique, arcuate, or rectangular struc-
tures 		169
25. Contraposed and volcanic island coasts 173
26. Regularization of morainic coasts 181
27. Chesil Beach and Dungeness in relation to wind and fetch 183
28. Shoreline evolving by recession in the embayments in South
Brittany 		188
29. Distribution of land and sea (after Sverdrup, Johnson, and
Fleming) 		201
30. Drowned valleys and structural relief on the continental shelf 206
31. Deposits in epicontinental seas 209
32. Submarine canyons 211
33. Structure of the continental margin 219
34. Steepening of the long profile of a canyon by presumed
flexuring 		224
35. The Norwegian Sea (after Stocks, 1950) 236
36. Structure and relief of parts of the bottom of the Central
Atlantic 		241
37. Relief of parts of the Pacific floor 243
38. The two main types of deep trenches 246
39. Origin and arrangement of ocean trenches 248
40. Distribution of pelagic deposits 256

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Publication Information: Book Title: Coastal and Submarine Morphology. Contributors: André Guilcher - author, B. W. Sparks - transltr, R. H. W. Kneese - transltr. Publisher: Methuen. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1958. Page Number: 10.
    
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