L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens (2e partie)
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 plain (from Amapa to Venezuela) and the North Brazil block (Pará/Maranhão). 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. Borges 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 plain (from Amapa to Venezuela) and the North Brazil block (Pará/Maranhão). It also constitutes a vast geological domain that links the Amapa Platform, the Marajo Basin and the Pará/Maranhão 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3d5109db57f14caeac81643c4f82f6dd2025-01-13T15:55:28ZengConfinsConfins1958-92122018-04-013410.4000/confins.12830L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens (2e partie)M. T. R. C. ProstJ-F. FaureC. CharronH.V. BorgesV. 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 plain (from Amapa to Venezuela) and the North Brazil block (Pará/Maranhão). It also constitutes a vast geological domain that links the Amapa Platform, the Marajo Basin and the Pará/Maranhão 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.https://journals.openedition.org/confins/12830remote sensinggeomorphologyamazonian coastal fringequaternary trends |
| spellingShingle | M. T. R. C. Prost J-F. Faure C. Charron H.V. Borges 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 (2e partie) Confins remote sensing geomorphology amazonian coastal fringe quaternary trends |
| title | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens (2e partie) |
| title_full | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens (2e partie) |
| title_fullStr | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens (2e partie) |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens (2e partie) |
| title_short | L’embouchure de l'Amazone, macro-frontière géomorphologique : enseignements de 30 années de recherches franco-brésiliennes sur les systèmes côtiers amazoniens (2e partie) |
| title_sort | l embouchure de l amazone macro frontiere geomorphologique enseignements de 30 annees de recherches franco bresiliennes sur les systemes cotiers amazoniens 2e partie |
| topic | remote sensing geomorphology amazonian coastal fringe quaternary trends |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/confins/12830 |
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