Reply to comments by R.H. Wagner on “Mass-transport deposits in a Variscan wedge-top foreland basin (Pisuerga area, Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain)” by G. Martín-Merino, L.P. Fernández, J.R. Colmenero and J.R. Bahamonde [Marine Geology 356 (2014) 71–87]

Past coastal flooding events may be inferred from geomorphic and sedimentary archives, including particular landforms (e.g., beach ridges, washover fans), deposits (e.g., washover sediments in lagoons) or erosional features (e.g., erosional scarps within strandplains). In Giralia Bay, southern Exmouth Gulf (Western Australia), sandy ridge sequences in supratidal elevations form the landward margin of extensive mudflats. The formation of these...