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Ras il-Ġebel: An Extreme Wave-Generated Bouldered Coast at Xgħajra (Malta)

2019; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-15456-1_19

2213-2104

Joanna Causon Deguara, Saviour Scerri,

earthquake and tectonic studies

Ras il-ĠebelBoulder beach is a small headland on the south-east coast of the Maltese Islands which faces the open sea. The morphology of the coastline is dominated by a wide shore platformShore platform and a high volume of boulders that form a small boulder beach. The evolution of these coastal landforms is controlled by geological structure and may be attributed to high energy waves acting upon regular discontinuitiesDiscontinuities in the bedrock. These take the form of a conjugate set of jointsJoints and weak interbedding layers which facilitate erosional processes such as block detachmentBlock detachment. These processes are enhanced by the different limestone stratigraphic units that occur within the zoneBoulder beach of stormShore platform wave impact.