Origin, evolution and processes controlling Holocene barrier-lagoon systems (NW Spain)

  1. González Villanueva, Rita
Zuzendaria:
  1. Susana Costas Otero Zuzendarikidea
  2. Marta Pérez Arlucea Zuzendarikidea

Defentsa unibertsitatea: Universidade de Vigo

Fecha de defensa: 2013(e)ko abendua-(a)k 20

Epaimahaia:
  1. Roberto Bao Presidentea
  2. Soledad García Gil Idazkaria
  3. Cesar Freire de Andrade Kidea
Saila:
  1. Xeociencias mariñas e ordenación do territorio

Mota: Tesia

Laburpena

The study of transitional environments, like barrier-lagoon systems, requires a multi approach analysis from different time scales to get a complete picture. In this thesis different time scales and different methodologies have been adopted and leaded to the conclusion that the evolution of the barrier-lagoon systems along the Atlantic Galician coast is determined by the interaction of four principal factors: topographic inheritance, sea-level, sediment supply and climate, in particular storminess regime. However, the load of each factor may change depending on the temporal scale of the analyzed processes. In an annual and multidecadal time-scale, storm regimes and sediment supply are the major forcers of change, but as we increase the temporal scale of analysis sea-level turns to dictate the evolution of the systems. Conversely, the topographic inheritance appears as a factor that passively controls the onset and subsequent response of coastal systems.