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Fig. 6.4
Stratigraphic organization of the sedimentary infi ll
of the main modern (Holocene) tide-dominated estuaries,
including as well the mixed-energy estuary of the Gironde,
and the tide-dominated delta of the Yangtze (a tide-dominated
estuary during the transgressive systems tract deposition).
The Cobequid Bay-Salmon River estuary (Bay of Fundy,
Canada) after Dalrymple and Zaitlin (1994); the South
Alligator estuary (van Diemen Gulf, North Australia) after
Woodroffe et al. (
1989
, 1993); the Gironde estuary (Central
Bay of Biscay, SW France) after Allen (
1991
) , Allen and
Posamentier (1993); the Seine estuary (Bay of Seine, NW
France) after Tessier et al. (
2010a
) ; the Mont-Saint-Michel
estuary (Norman-Breton Gulf, NW France) after Tessier et al.
(
2010b
); the Vilaine estuary (Northern Bay of Biscay, NW
France) after Menier et al. (
2010
); the early Holocene Yangtze
estuary (East China Sea, China) after Hori et al. (
2001
) ; the
Qiantang River estuary (Hangzhou Bay, China) after Lin
et al. (
2005
) .
SB
sequence boundary,
TS
transgressive surface,
TRS
Tidal ravinement surface,
WRS
wave ravinement surface,
MFS
maximum fl odding surface,
LST
,
TST
,
HST
-lowstand,
transgressive, highstand systems tracts,
TDD
tide-dominated
delta
