IX. Shorelines
A. Waves
- basics
(fig. 13.3)
- wavelength
- wave base
- types of waves
- swells
- breakers; surf
- motion of water and sediment (fig. 13.5, 13.9)
- longshore current
- beach drift
B. Shorelines
- depositional beaches (fig. 13.14)
- spits
- baymouth bars (fig. 13.12)
- barrier islands (fig. 13.13)
- tombolo
- human effects
- groin (fig. 13.15)
- breakwater (fig. 13.16)
- erosional
- coastal straightening (fig. 13.18)
- wave-cut cliffs, wave-cut platform (fig. 13.10)
- sea cave/sea arc/sea stack (fig. 13.11)
- carbonate shorelines
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