ABSTRACT
The role of climate in general and of extreme weather conditions in particular, in coastal change and coastal sedimentation had not gone unnoticed. While the overall control of climate through the glacio-eustatic process was acknowledged, some authors emphasised the overriding importance of this process. The coastal barriers and dunes consist of fine- to medium-grained sands, with shells forming the barriers and overlaid by blown sand. The tidal flat and lagoonal deposits are in part overlapped by the coastal barriers and dunes, and the lithostratigraphic units consist of low and high tidal flat deposits, marine, brackish water and freshwater clays, intercalating salt-marsh, telmatic and terrestrial peats, and lake muds. The implications of this conclusion are that no further progress is possible until all existing and new sea-level data are reproduced to a common denominator, and at the moment the use of sea-level and coastal stratigraphie data as a proxy for climate is considerably reduced in value.
