ABSTRACT
The coast of Belgium stretches for approximately 67 km, between the borders with France and the Netherlands. It is intensively developed, with several examples of the movement pattern of former inland settlements, as a result of tourist pressures, to new sites which are now coastal conurbations having coastal lengths of several kilometres, as from Blekkaard to De Panne. The Shoreline 'promenade' is lined by multi-storeyed constructions that replaced Belle-Epoque and Victorian villas that German occupation forces had soldered together in 1940 as part of the Atlantic Wall. Geology and geomorphology Stratigraphy Quaternary surface sediments on coastal zones are well known, but knowledge of deeper Quaternary units remain fragmentary. Many events may be accounted for, such as the Zwin Inlet case, the filling up of channels, and the disappearance of towns drowned by the North Sea. Man-made polders dominate in the eastern coastal zone.
