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Classification and Characteristics of Beaches at Tenerife and Gran Canaria Islands

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Canary archipelago is formed by seven main islands and several islets that extends for nearly 500 km across the eastern Atlantic, between latitudes 27°N and 30°N, lying its eastern edge only 100 km from the NW African coast.

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    Ignacio Alonso, Mariona Casamayor, María José Sánchez García & Isabel Montoya-Montes

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Alonso, I., Casamayor, M., Sánchez García, M.J., Montoya-Montes, I. (2019). Classification and Characteristics of Beaches at Tenerife and Gran Canaria Islands. In: Morales, J. (eds) The Spanish Coastal Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93169-2_16

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