A chenier or chénier is a sandy or shelly beach ridge that is part of a strand plain, called a “chenier plain,” consisting of cheniers separated by intervening mud-flat deposits with marsh …

chenier, beach ridge, usually composed of sand-sized material resting on clay or mud. Chenier is the Louisiana French term for the oak tree belts that mark the distribution of the ridges in the …

A chenier plain is a strand plain consisting of long, narrow- wooded beach ridges (cheniers) and intervening mudfl ats with marsh or swamp vegetation (Otvos and Price, 1979).

A chenier plain is a strand plain consisting of long, narrow beach ridges (cheniers) and intervening mudflats with marsh or swamp vegetation. The word chenier is derived from the Cajun French …

Dec 30, 1989 · Cheniers and chenier plains are azonal features. Their distribution ranges from tropical to the subarctic regions and they show a variety of features. Progradational shorelines …

The chenier plain of the Mississippi River is a shore-parallel zone of alternating transgressive clastic ridges separated by progradational mudflats. The term chenier is derived from the cajun …

Cheniers are stabilized wave-built ridges, usually of sand, but sometimes shelly or gravelly, that have been deposited on an alluvial plain of silt, clay, or peat on prograding deltas or coastal …

Jan 1, 2014 · Chenier plains develop on shores that receive large supplies of mud and also some sand and periodically undergo erosion. The ridges form partly from the sand fraction of eroding …

Jan 1, 2015 · Chenier is a term devoted exclusively to linear sandy coastal ridges separated from the shoreline by muddy deposits (mudflats or marshes). The base of the cheniers should be a …

May 1, 1979 · Two categories exist among the verified chenier plains: the large-scale bight coast and the small-scale bayhead types. Low-to-medium average wave energies and micro-to …