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Beach-rocks et arrecifes à Madagascar et dans les îles voisines: leur utilisation pour l'étude de l'évolution de la ligne de rivage in Le beach-rock.

In tropical regions beach-rock in the best tool for the study of the variations of sandy beach outlines during the last 6 000 years. In Madagascar, it is very frequent, especially in the coral reef areas. It provides possibilities to obtain data

Grès de plage (beach-rocks) et récifs coralliens in Le beach-rock.

Beach-rocks, which are common in tropical regions, may be capped by coral reefs, or conversely develop upon reef flats, depending on the variations of sea level and coastal profile in recent times. Some good examples of these complex relationships

Le grès de plage (beach-rock, versteinerter Strand) a-t-il une ou des significations morphogénétiques? in Le beach-rock.

This paper consists of two series of remarks, resulting from the author's observations and from the author's of intertropical and mediterranean regions. The first series, deriving from recent papers by R. Dalongeville and P. Sanlaville, discusses

Etude de quelques grès de plage du Sud de la Corse: datations C et implications néotectoniques pour le bloc corso-sarde in Le beach-rock.

Knowing that beachrocks are built at, or near, the sea level, we dated (C) old submerged beachrocks in South Corsica in order to investigate possible recent tectonic movements in the region. All the sites show a good correlation between the present