An investigation of the coastal erosion causes in Samos island, eastern Aegean Sea
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https://doi.org/10.56617/tl.4171Schlagwörter:
coastal erosion, Samos Island, wave actionAbstract
The geomorphological processes, which take place on the coastal zone, are influenced by a number of environmental factors, such as lithology, climate, biota, and oceanography. The present study investigated the causes of erosion taking place on the beach zones and on the coastal cliffs along the Island of Samos (eastern Aegean Sea). On the northern part of the island the coastline is characterised mainly by rocky and craggy coasts with the beach zones to be limited and in the form of a ‘pocket’ type of beach, while on the southern part by wide and long beach zones constituted by cobbles and pebbles. Intense coastal erosion takes place mainly on the rocky coasts on the northern and especially on the northwestern part of the island. In some coastal places intense coastal erosion causes problems not only to the infrastructure (road network), but also to near-coast people’s properties. Coastal erosion is more intense on the northern coasts, than on the southern coasts, due to the differenced in the incoming wave energy, which is dominated by the more intense and frequent blowing northerly winds. Furthermore, it seems that coastline retreat is more often along parts of the coast consisting of marles, malry limestones and limestones.
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