Badyukova, Ekaterina; Zhindarev, Leonid; Lukyanova, Svetlana; Solovyeva, Galina 

Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, E-mail: badyukova@yandex.ru

This article addresses the southern sector of the Curonian Spit, the largest coastal barrier of the Baltic Sea. The detailed analysis of the geologic-geomorphologic structure of this spit has allowed the conclusion that within this sector it is not a sedimentary barrier created by wave action and Aeolian processes in the Holocene but a part of the pre-Holocene fluvioglacial plain.

Keywords:  Coastal barrier, lagoon, erosion, underwater slope, fluvioglacial deposits