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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Trottoirs

Author : David Hopley

Published in: Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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The term “trottoir,” French for pavement, is a very imprecise one in coastal geomorphology, referring to a range of intertidal landforms formed by a variety of processes. At their simplest, they form a bioconstructional overhang perhaps a meter wide attached to steep rocky shores at about mid-tide level. Elsewhere, on less steeply sloping coastlines, erosional platforms tens of meters wide may be covered by a similar variety of calcareous algae, vermitids, and other bioconstructional organisms which, on the outer edge form a distinctive rim where wave agitation encourages more rapid accumulation. These forms are particularly prominent over calcareous substrates and in the tropics, where they cover platforms cut into raised reef limestones, may merge with the algal terraces of high-energy reef margins (Emery, 1962). In deeper water beyond the trottoirs, mushroom-shaped bosses constructed of the same organisms, may rise to the sea surface where their morphology may resemble that of coral micro-atolls. …

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Metadata
Title
Trottoirs
Author
David Hopley
Copyright Year
2005
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-1903-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4020-3880-8

Copyright Year: 2005

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3880-1_331