Introduction
The coastline of French Guiana extends along the Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and Surinam for 370 km. It is a landscape of mangroves and salt marshes, broken here and there by outcrops of Pre-Cambrian crystalline basement (Fig. 4.7.1 ).
The coast of French Guiana. A, salt marshes; B, mangroves; C, swamps.
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Turenne, J. (2010). French Guiana. In: Bird, E.C.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8639-7_37
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