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The term “Dalmatian Coasts” refers to a prototype of a primary coast by ingression of the rising postglacial sea into a relief of coast-parallel anticlines and synclines from a young orogenesis, named after the landscape of Dalmatia (Croatia, former Yugoslavia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean; Charlier 2010). In the eastern Adriatic Sea, this coastal landscape extends for 400 km from Rijeka in the north to Dubrovnik in the south. Single islands are up to 60 km long but only a few km wide.
Elongated cuestas may build the island chains instead of anticlines. Narrow channels between long islands are called “vallone” or “canale” (from the Italian word for channel or valley), and the Dalmatian Coast therefore is named canale or vallone coast, as well (Fig. 1). The coastlines of the central part of Croatia, built up by Mesozoic limestones, show only very little forming by true littoral processes (Pikelj and Juračić 2013). Beaches are missing as well as extended cliffs. The first is...
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Kelletat, D.H. (2019). Dalmatian Coasts. In: Finkl, C.W., Makowski, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Coastal Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93806-6_107
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