Coasts
- Created by: Alya
- Created on: 03-12-12 14:20
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- Coast
- Longshore Drift
- Pebbles moving along coastline
- Zig-zag
- Depends on the wave direction
- Tombolos
- Spit
- Erosion
- Hydraulic action
- Water forced into cracks
- Solution
- Soluble material dissolves from rocks
- Abrasion
- Fling sand and pebbles against the rock
- Attrition
- Pebbles knocking each other
- Hydraulic action
- Weathering
- Wearing away of rocks in situ
- Wind, rain, water, people, etc.
- Deposition
- Carries them then drops
- Forms beaches
- Longshore Drift
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