Purpose – To present a novel moving boundary problem related to the shoreline movement in a sedimentary basin and demonstrate that numerical techniques from heat transfer, in particular enthalpy methods, can be adapted to solve this problem. Design/methodology/approach – The problem of interest involves tracking the movement (on a geological time scale) of the shoreline of a sedimentary ocean b...

We present and discuss the results of a geomorphological geological study aimed at reconstructing Plio-Quaternary evolution NW Sicily coastal belt , low strain rate region in central Mediterranean Sea.We performed morphometric field analysis Quaternary marine terraces extracting more than 300 shoreline location points subdivided into six orders. The obtained dataset was validate by investigatin...

Abstract Coastal regions (including estuaries and deltas) are very complex environments with diverse hydrodynamic bio-geomorphological contexts important socio-economic ecological problems. These systems among the most affected by human impact through urbanization port activities, industrial tourism activities. They directly of climate change on sea level, storm surges frequency strength, as we...

This study presents measurement of changes using image processing techniques, Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) and Landsat images along the coast of the island of Djerba, Tunisia. Three regions of this island were selected: Rass Errmall, El Kastil and Aghir. Accretions as well as erosion processes were observed in the study areas between 1984 and 2009. The average of the erosion was aro...