2017/01/11 by Katarina Džaja · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Cruise Tourism Development and Management #Archipelago #Geology #Mainland #Pleistocene #Cave #Orography #Geography #Continental shelf #Archaeology #Oceanography #Paleontology #Precipitation #Meteorology
paper · pdf · doi:10.15291/geoadria.98
openalex publication_date 2017/01/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Dugi Otok Island is the biggest (114 km2) and the longest (44.4 km) of all Zadar archipelago islands. According to the coast indentedness (4.5), it is the second island in the Adriatic Sea. Basic geomorphological characteristics of the island are relatively great concordance of orography and basic geological structure and predominance of the karstic type of relief on the carbonate lithological basis. Marine type of relief is very characteristic, especially the features formed by abrasion process. Parallelism of the island with relief and geological structures of neighbouring mainland classifies the island into the type of continental islands extended in Dinaric NW-SE direction. Today's relief characteristics are primarily the result of the post-Pleistocene sea ingresion, which is the consequence of the general raising of the world sea level for ca. 100 m.