“…Incised valleys are key feature of sedimentary systems (Blum et al, 2013), especially during periods of sea level lowstand when they act as highways across the shelves for the sediments produced in catchments on land. In the last few decades, the study of incised valleys has been the focus of many research papers, involving people interested in fluvial and coastal evolution, paleo-climate reconstructions, sequencestratigraphic models and exploration geology (Posamentier and Vail, 1988;Van Wagoner et al, 1990;Blum and Aslan, 2006;Strong and Paola, 2008;Bauer et al, 2009;Rodriguez et al, 2010;Martin et al, 2011). In order to ease the dialog among several research communities, a suite of different nomenclatures has been introduced, depending on where the incision took place (Zaitlin et al, 1994), the nature of substrate (Blum et al, 2013), the size (Ashley and Sheridan, 1994) and the shape (Simms et al, 2006) of the valley, as well as the presence of single vs. multiple erosional surfaces (Zaitlin et al, 1994) and the nature of their sediment infill (Simms et al, 2006).…”