L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens
The Mouth of the Amazon River, considered to be the largest river on Earth, is a geomorphological macro-frontier between two coastal blocks : the Guiana Shield coastal fringe (from Amapa to Venezuela) and the Para/Maranhao block (North Brazil). It also constitutes a vast geological domain that links...
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| author | M. T. R. C. Prost J-F. Faure C. Charron H.V. Vargas V. F. Santos A.C. Mendes A. Gardel |
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| description | The Mouth of the Amazon River, considered to be the largest river on Earth, is a geomorphological macro-frontier between two coastal blocks : the Guiana Shield coastal fringe (from Amapa to Venezuela) and the Para/Maranhao block (North Brazil). It also constitutes a vast geological domain that links the Amapa Platform, the Marajo Basin and the Para/Maranhao Platform. This Paper brings a synthetic view on this coastal compartment. It refers to a large number of multidisciplinary scientific results, and to remote sensing breakthroughs in environmental monitoring. The main purpose of the Paper is to enlight the role of the Mouth as a threshold in regional and local dinamics and processes. The geomorphological analysis relies on a taxonomy of facts and on dialectics between types and individuals. Final considerations are focused on environmental indicators and on current trends in coastal evolution in the Amazon.Warning : this text constitutes the first Part of the Paper. The second Part of the Paper will be published in the next volume of CONFINS. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2858328115434aeb8e863d1c5cbe9e002024-02-14T13:46:09ZengConfinsConfins1958-92123310.4000/confins.12568L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniensM. T. R. C. ProstJ-F. FaureC. CharronH.V. VargasV. F. SantosA.C. MendesA. GardelThe Mouth of the Amazon River, considered to be the largest river on Earth, is a geomorphological macro-frontier between two coastal blocks : the Guiana Shield coastal fringe (from Amapa to Venezuela) and the Para/Maranhao block (North Brazil). It also constitutes a vast geological domain that links the Amapa Platform, the Marajo Basin and the Para/Maranhao Platform. This Paper brings a synthetic view on this coastal compartment. It refers to a large number of multidisciplinary scientific results, and to remote sensing breakthroughs in environmental monitoring. The main purpose of the Paper is to enlight the role of the Mouth as a threshold in regional and local dinamics and processes. The geomorphological analysis relies on a taxonomy of facts and on dialectics between types and individuals. Final considerations are focused on environmental indicators and on current trends in coastal evolution in the Amazon.Warning : this text constitutes the first Part of the Paper. The second Part of the Paper will be published in the next volume of CONFINS.https://journals.openedition.org/confins/12568geomorphologyamazonian coastal fringequaternary trendsremote sensing. |
| spellingShingle | M. T. R. C. Prost J-F. Faure C. Charron H.V. Vargas V. F. Santos A.C. Mendes A. Gardel L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens Confins geomorphology amazonian coastal fringe quaternary trends remote sensing. |
| title | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens |
| title_full | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens |
| title_fullStr | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens |
| title_short | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens |
| title_sort | l embouchure de l amazone macro frontiere geomorphologique enseignements de 30 annees de recherches franco bresiliennes sur les systemes cotiers amazoniens |
| topic | geomorphology amazonian coastal fringe quaternary trends remote sensing. |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/confins/12568 |
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