Morphological control on sediment dispersal along the southern Tyrrhenian coastal zones (Italy)

The study shows the relationships between the coastal zone, the continental shelf-slope system morphology and the sediment dispersal with respect to the coastal dynamics. Three areas along the Tyrrhenian margin are studied: the Gulf of Policastro, the Gulf of Gaeta and the Volturno River mouth. The interaction of coastal and submarine morphology with the hydrodynamic regimes determines a control on coastal dynamic processes, conditioning the dispersal of sediments in the three selected areas, each one characterised by different seabottom forms, both inherited and of new genesis.