Coasts Presentation

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• Transportation• Erosion• Deposition

• Corrasion• Attrition• Solution• Hydraulic action

Waves

• Swash• Backwash• Deposition • Destructive wave• Constructive wave• Fetch• Long shore drift• Transportation• Erosion• Fetch

Constructive and Destructive Waves

A constructive wave has a strong swash and a weak back wash.

A destructive wave has a weak swash and a strong back wash.

Headlands and Bays

Coves and Wave cut Platforms.

Cliffs

Arches

Stacks & Stumps

Spits