Quantifying spatial variability in shell midden formation in the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia
Fig 2
The edge of the coral platform in Janaba East, showing a notch deeply undercut by marine erosion.
Above it is a shell mound located with two figures standing on it. This undercut terrace is of variable extent along the Janaba Bay shoreline and is not present on the shoreline in the background nor associated with the sites in Transects 2 and 3, where the shallow gradient onshore and offshore has resulted in an almost imperceptible break between the landward surface of the fossilised coral platform and the offshore surface, Photo by Garry Momber, May 2006.