Observations de Geomorphologie Littorale a Mamba Point (Monrovia, Libéria)

Abstract: Cape Mamba Point is formed as a working cliff as a result of the very slow weathering of the dolerite and shows the exact arrangement of the shoreline-forming processes in well-differentiated elevations. The salty spray prevents the emergence of vegetation on the top of the cliff. The following processes interact: Pockmarked salt weathering, sometimes leading to the formation of small holes; thermal microdesquamation; decomposition by lower plants, but limited to a transition zone on the summit. Further below, where the rocks are washed by the sea or temporarily submerged at the time of high tide, is the area of corrosion with barrows and grooving. Still deeper, in the lower part of the intertidal area, a thin layer of algae covers a sharp-edged micro relief. The working is very weak. All these processes create exclusively sandy grus. It is carried away by the waves together with the blocks detached from the association by fissure weathering at the level of the high tide line and i.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1368

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Observations de Geomorphologie Littorale a Mamba Point (Monrovia, Libéria) ; volume:16 ; number:1 ; year:1962 ; Erdkunde ; 16, Heft 1 (1962)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Tricart, Jean

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1962.01.05
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291212172.949387025048
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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