@inbook {11991,
	title = {Paros Island (Cyclades, Aegean Sea) coastal zone: Natural Processes and Dynamics.},
	booktitle = {Coastal and Marine Geospatial Technologies},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {285-296},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	abstract = {<div>The present contribution deals with the natural environment of Paros\&nbsp;island coastal zone. More than 75\% of the coastal zone consists of high and\&nbsp;lower cliffs, whilst the relatively flat coastal plains are rare. The island receives\&nbsp;a substantial amount of wave energy flux. The largest rocky and of high slopes\&nbsp;coastal part is situated at the northeast and northwest part of the island being\&nbsp;developed on hard (resistant to weathering processes) metamorphic rocks. Coastal\&nbsp;plains (slopes \&lt; 2.5\%) have been formed on Quaternary clastic formations. Furthermore,\&nbsp;sandy and/or pebbly beach zones have been formed by the deposition\&nbsp;of terrigenous (mainly) and marine sediments, along relatively sheltered from the\&nbsp;wave activity parts of the coastline, i.e. the bays of Drios, Kephalos, Plastiras, Piso\&nbsp;Livadi and Alikes. Palaeogeographic reconstruction with respect to sea-level rise\&nbsp;within Holocene reveals that Paros island, at 10.000 yr BP, was much larger (some\&nbsp;1.025 km<sup>2</sup>) combined with the islands of Antiparos, Naxos and several islets, while\&nbsp;at 6.000 yr BP was only connected to Antiparos island covering 264.3 km<sup>2</sup>. Finally,\&nbsp;the predicted ca. 0.5 m of sea level rise for the year 2100, due to climatic change,\&nbsp;will definitely threaten the socio-economy of the island as all touristic beaches will\&nbsp;be deteriorated as well as several\&nbsp; onstructions along its coastline.</div>},
	author = {Evelpidou, N. and Poulos, S. and Vassilopoulos, A.},
	editor = {David R. Green}
}
