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The Active Dune System of Doñana National Park

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Along the last 50 km of Huelva’s east coast and covering more than 430 km2, the aeolian sand sheet of El Abalario-Doñana constitutes the biggest example of an aeolian complex on the whole coast of Spain. In it different sequences or episodes of aeolian formations can be discerned, extending in time from the Late Glacial/Holocene up to the present (Borja and Díaz del Olmo 1996), encompassing areas of entirely stabilised dunes and others where active dunes prevail, including outstanding examples of mobile dunes.

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Vallejo, I., Ojeda, J. (2019). The Active Dune System of Doñana National Park. In: Morales, J. (eds) The Spanish Coastal Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93169-2_29

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