by Poppe de Boer
Albert P. Oost & Poppe L. de Boer (1994)
Senckenbergiana maritima 24, 65-115.
This paper presents an overview of the Dutch Wadden Sea from a sedimentological point of view. After the pioneering... more
This paper presents an overview of the Dutch Wadden Sea from a sedimentological point of view. After the pioneering work of scientists new impulses to this kind of research are being given by the need for detailed recent analogues of fossil hydrocarbon-containing rock successions and by the great concern about the future of our coastline in relation to accelerated sea-level rise. After many studies of a descriptive nature in the past, there is now a growing tendency so a more dynamical view to the Wadden Sea system. There is a strong interdependence between various tidal sub-environments within individual inlet systems. Together these sub-environments form so-called Sand Sharing Systems, whose behaviour is largely defined by the tidal prism and the wave climate. Such a dynamical approach may greatly facilitate the research and understanding o fossil barrier-related sediments. Apart from the physical processes the abundant biota plays also an important role in the sedimentological development of the Wadden Sea. The large amount of data on the development of the Wadden Sea in pre-historical and historical times, moreover, allows to test hypotheses about the evolution of the system on the scale of centuries to millennia.
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