Abstract
Belgium’s sandy, rectilinear, and macrotidal coastline is about 65 km long (Fig. 1). It borders the southern North Sea in a southwest to northeast direction, showing a gentle southward deflection east of Wenduine. It is situated a short distance from the large Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta and near to the entrance of the Westerscheldt, a 5 km/wide estuary. Beside the mouth of the small river Ijzer, a few canal outlets (the harbours of Ostend, Blankenberge, and Zeebrugge) and the inlet of the Zwin tidal creek, the only remnant of the large 12th Century Zwin estuary, no more entrances breach that coastline.
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De Moor, G., Bloome, E. (1988). Belgium. In: Walker, H.J. (eds) Artificial Structures and Shorelines. The GeoJournal Library, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2999-9_15
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