Luca Baradello

1 INTRODUCTION The coasts of the northern Adriatic are characterised by the presence of marshlands and the much studied lagoons (Fontolan et al., 2007; Bondesan & Meneghel, 2004). These coastal sedimentary systems have evolved as the result of the balance between the sediments transported by the rivers and tidal inlets and the erosion caused by the sea. Furthermore, both the plain and the sea floor show a very low gradient (ca 0.4‰, Ronchi et al., 2018).

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Aldo Vesnaver SciProfiles Scilit Preprints.org Google Scholar * and Luca Baradello SciProfiles Scilit Preprints.org Google Scholar National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics—OGS, 34010 Sgonico, Italy * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. J. Mar. Sci. Eng.