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Last Glacial Maximum giant sand dunes on the island of Vis, Croatia

The Island of Vis (Croatia) is the westernmost great island of the central Dalmatian archipelago situated 45 km from the mainland. The island represents a foreland anticlinal structure (cf. Korbar, 2009 and references therein) made up predominantly of a more than 1500 m thick succession of Jurassic to Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates that was pierced by the Komiža salt diapir in its western part as evidenced by the middle Triassic evaporites accompanied by various sedimentary and volcanic rocks (Belak et al., 2005 ; Korbar et al., 2012). In its eastern and central parts, there are several karstic depressions filled with Quaternary sands and calcareous debris, and covered with terra rossa. At the sand pit in Veliko Zlo Polje, situated in the eastern part of Vis in a NE-SW elongated valley, at the elevation of around 100 m a.s.l., a 20 meters thick and approximately 140 meters wide outcrop of Quaternary aeolian sands is exposed.

LGM, Adriatic, Vis island, aeolian sand dunes.

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