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Fig. 4 : Littoral of the European Union distribution of morphological classes.
Shoreline evolutionary trends : trend unknown ; stability ; erosion ; accretion.
These have allowed to determine current erosion in the EU countries.
Preliminary results thus show that a significant part (28%) of the coastlines of the
EU suffers from erosion.