The Staircase Structure of the Southern Brazilian Continental Shelf
Figure 1
Profiles (depth
versus the distance to the coast) of the
Southeastern Brazilian Continental Shelf. The arrows indicate the terraces
considered in our analyses. The profile shown with a thick black line is the
profile chosen for our derivations, reproduced also in (b). The other two
profiles had their original position of the two axes shifted by a constant
value such that one can also identify the terraces observed in the chosen
profile in these other two. Note that a translation of the profiles by a
constant value has no effect on any of the scalings observed. The reason of
this mismatch between the profiles is due to the local geometry of the coast at
the time the sea reached that level.
