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22. The Guadalquivir Estuary: Spits and Marshes

Authors : Antonio Rodríguez-Ramírez, Juan J. R. Villarías-Robles, José Noel Pérez-Asensio, Sebastián Celestino-Pérez

Published in: The Spanish Coastal Systems

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The estuary of the Guadalquivir River is the largest in the Gulf of Cadiz, covering an area of some 185,000 ha. From a geological standpoint, the estuary represents the culmination of the marine filling of the Cenozoic Guadalquivir Basin. The present-day configuration of the estuary is the result of the post-glacial transgression of the Atlantic Ocean, starting ca. 15,000 years, that developed during the latest Pleistocene-Holocene up until some 5,500 years ago, when the level of the sea stabilised. The lower Guadalquivir valley was transformed into a wide estuary as the interfluves turned into pronounced headlands. Marine and fluvial dynamics, dependent upon climate and tectonics, thus shaped the present landscape, which features extensive dune systems, marshes and spits, as well as erosion of the headlands (cliff formation).

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Title: The Guadalquivir Estuary: Spits and Marshes
Authors: Antonio Rodríguez-Ramírez
Juan J. R. Villarías-Robles
José Noel Pérez-Asensio
Sebastián Celestino-Pérez
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: The Spanish Coastal Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-93168-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-93169-2

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93169-2_22