Formas litorales en la costa noroccidental gallega: los sectores acantilados entre Cabo Prioriño (Ferrol) y Punta Frouxeira (Valdoviño)

Abstract

This paper analyzes litoral landforms in Galician northwestern coast, particularly cliffs, shore platforms and related forms. According to the balance between marine and continental processes working on cliffs, we studie their different profiles and ways of evolution, strongly related with the presence of shore platforms and their geometry. The result shows the high structural control in coastal dinamics of the sector, and the importance of the poligenic character of the coastal forms, on account of the succesion of periods of stability and inestability.