Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement, 2000, n° 3, p. 177-190

Abridged English Version deep incursions into the bays and laid down a sequence forming the lowest of a small flight of marine terraces. This work concerns the marine Upper Pleistocene In hard bedrock, as the massif lying in the west of the Gulf (Tyrrhenian) between Mochlos, in the west of the Gulf of of Mirabello, the notch carved by the Tyrrhenian sea is Mirabello, and Ayios Krystos in the Bay of Malia (fig. 1). not significant and disappears beneath the slope deposits. From a morphological point of view the Tyrrhenian In this environment, successive shorelines generated by outcrops are very different according to the substratum. wave action are not observed and yet, there is evidence On soft bedrock, generally marl, the Tyrrhenian sea made that a consequence of rock platforms were visited by the