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Factors and Processes Forming the Polish Southern Baltic Sea Coast on Various Temporal and Spatial Scales

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The aim of the article is to define and characterize factors and processes forming the Southern Baltic Sea coast on various temporal and spatial scales including the interaction between morphodynamic effects. Waves, coastal currents, fluctuations in sea level, cliffs and seabed erosion, transport and accumulation of sediments are the most important processes, which formed the coastline of the Southern Baltic Sea over the past millennia and influenced its present form, with different types of coasts and specific forms of relief. These processes last unceasing and dynamically and interact with a contemporary coastal zone which is intensively transformed. In the coastal zone of Southern Baltic Sea, coastal systems have been identified with characteristic geological conditions, morphology and morphodynamics, which are acting in parallel on various temporal and spatial scales. Coastal systems acting simultaneously on different levels, overlap, causing a complex contemporary picture of the processes and forms. Spatial and temporal differentiation of structures and processes are to be considered in the Southern Baltic Sea for modelling approaches of coastal changes.

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The research was conducted and financed within the framework of COPAF Project and statutory research of the Remote Sensing and Marine Cartography Unit and the Marine Geomorphology Unit of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin.

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    Stanisław Musielak, Kazimierz Furmańczyk & Natalia Bugajny

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Musielak, S., Furmańczyk, K., Bugajny, N. (2017). Factors and Processes Forming the Polish Southern Baltic Sea Coast on Various Temporal and Spatial Scales. In: Harff, J., Furmańczyk, K., von Storch, H. (eds) Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East. Coastal Research Library, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49894-2_5

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