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The Development and Management of the Dingle Bay Spit-Barriers of Southwest Ireland

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Sand and Gravel Spits

Part of the book series: Coastal Research Library ((COASTALRL,volume 12))

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The palaeoenvironmental and morphodynamic functioning of three closely linked spit-like structures are examined from the high energy Atlantic margin of Europe, at the head of Dingle Bay, southwest Ireland. The ‘spits’ are formed within a long (c. 40 km) and narrow (c. 10 km) sedimentary compartmentalised embayment and are controlled by a mixed wave and tidal dominated regime. The features demonstrate the quasi-unique, local (micro- to meso-scales) functioning of coastal systems. The ‘spits’ represent essentially composite beach- and dune-barriers, developed under Holocene sea-level rise (SLR) on N-S aligned glacial end-moraines formed at the end of the last glacial stage (MIS 2–4) and orientated normal to present onshore wave action. Minor drift aligned shoreline spits are found at the distal ends of these barriers. The two seaward fronting structures of Inch and Rossbehy are separated by an ebb-tidal delta and probably formed as a single barrier in the early- to mid-Holocene across Dingle Bay, before moving by roll over mechanisms to their present positions. Extensive back-barrier wetlands began to form behind this structure in the mid-Holocene. This earlier barrier was breached c. 3,000 years BP, leading to the formation of the three present spit-like morphologies. Whilst the Inch Spit appears to be relatively stable today, Rossbehy Spit was breached by a storm surge in 2008 and continues to erode at rates of 30–50 m/year along its core-length and at c. 25 m/year on the seaward shore face, with the breach doubling in size to 1,400 m wide from 2012 to 2014. Under future climate warming this structure is likely to disintegrate, with significant impacts on Inch and the morpho- and hydrodynamics of neighbouring coastal systems. The processes now in operation evidence the likely coastal squeeze that will occur on many World coasts under SLR in the twenty-first century.

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    “Radiocarbon dates are given as calibrated 14C ages (Delaney et al. 2012)”.

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Devoy, R.J.N. (2015). The Development and Management of the Dingle Bay Spit-Barriers of Southwest Ireland. In: Randazzo, G., Jackson, D., Cooper, J. (eds) Sand and Gravel Spits. Coastal Research Library, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13716-2_9

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