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Journal of Coastal Research 175-184 Royal Palm Beach, Florida Winter 1998 The High Sands of the Danish Wadden Sea-Especially the Ebb-Tide Delta, Soren Jessens Sande, and its Incorporation with the Island of Fane N. Kingo Jacobsen Institute of Geography University of Copenhagen 0stervoldgade 10 DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark ABSTRACT _ JACOBSEN, N.K., 1998. The high sands of the Danish Wadden Sea-especially the ebb-tide delta, Seren Jessens ,tflllllll:. Sande, and its incorporation with the island of Fane. Journal ofCoastal Research, 14(1I, 175-184. Royal Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. ~.~ ,., A 7f This article attempts to accountfor the coastal morphology south of Blavandshuk,western Jutland, Denmark.This coastal section is dominated by a barrier beach development, behind which lies the Danish part of the Wadden Sea. There is a description of the results of borings that were made in order to understand the dynamics at work since the very first offshore bar development. The effectof the changingsea-level since the Weichsel Glaciation, which has been accompanied by differenttidal conditions and stormfloods of varying magnitude during the past 3000-8000years is also described. The originand balanceofsediments is dealt with;especially the high sands and shoalsofthe DanishWaddenSea with particular reference to the evolution of the ebb-tide delta, Seren Jessens Sande, which is described in detail with the use of maps. Howand when its incorporation with the island of Fane took place is described. ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS: -Coastal morphology, sediment transport, sedimentary budget, barrier island, bar, shoal. INTRODUCTION series of deepwater channels that function as water exchang If Denmark, within the Nordic context, is to be considered ers between the North Sea and the Wadden Sea which lies representative of a geomorphological landscape complex that between the barrier islands and the mainland.
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