<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Poulos, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilopoulos, A.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">David R. Green</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paros Island (Cyclades, Aegean Sea) coastal zone: Natural Processes and Dynamics.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coastal and Marine Geospatial Technologies</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">285-296</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div&gt;The present contribution deals with the natural environment of Paros&amp;nbsp;island coastal zone. More than 75% of the coastal zone consists of high and&amp;nbsp;lower cliffs, whilst the relatively flat coastal plains are rare. The island receives&amp;nbsp;a substantial amount of wave energy flux. The largest rocky and of high slopes&amp;nbsp;coastal part is situated at the northeast and northwest part of the island being&amp;nbsp;developed on hard (resistant to weathering processes) metamorphic rocks. Coastal&amp;nbsp;plains (slopes &amp;lt; 2.5%) have been formed on Quaternary clastic formations. Furthermore,&amp;nbsp;sandy and/or pebbly beach zones have been formed by the deposition&amp;nbsp;of terrigenous (mainly) and marine sediments, along relatively sheltered from the&amp;nbsp;wave activity parts of the coastline, i.e. the bays of Drios, Kephalos, Plastiras, Piso&amp;nbsp;Livadi and Alikes. Palaeogeographic reconstruction with respect to sea-level rise&amp;nbsp;within Holocene reveals that Paros island, at 10.000 yr BP, was much larger (some&amp;nbsp;1.025 km&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;) combined with the islands of Antiparos, Naxos and several islets, while&amp;nbsp;at 6.000 yr BP was only connected to Antiparos island covering 264.3 km&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. Finally,&amp;nbsp;the predicted ca. 0.5 m of sea level rise for the year 2100, due to climatic change,&amp;nbsp;will definitely threaten the socio-economy of the island as all touristic beaches will&amp;nbsp;be deteriorated as well as several&amp;nbsp; onstructions along its coastline.&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>