Understanding hydro-sedimentary processes in space-limited environments as embayed
beaches is a key question to reconstruct preterit and predict future coastal evolution forced by
the mean sea level rise. Moreover, such knowledge is a fundamental management tool in areas
where coastal erosion is currently a worrying fact. This work aims thus to assess the
sedimentary contribute, provided by the alongshore transport, to feed embayed beaches.
At the southernmost rocky coast of Portugal (Algarve), beaches occurring at the cliffs’ foot are
separated by headlands connected to shore platforms forming littoral cells as a consequence of
the extremely karstified carbonate landscape. The survival of those beaches depends almost
exclusively on the alongshore drift.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
