Marine processes G1
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- Created on: 21-04-14 10:09
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- Marine processes
- Hydraulic Action
- power of the waves smash onto a cliff, causing trapped air blasting into holes & cracking the rock, to break apart
- Abrasion (Corrasion)
- pebbles grinding a rocky platform causing it to be smoother.
- fragments of rock being picked up & hurled by the sea at a cliff
- fragments of rock being picked up & hurled by the sea at a cliff
- pebbles grinding a rocky platform causing it to be smoother.
- Solution (corrosion)
- Rocks that are vulnerable to being dissolved by seawater. eg. chalk
- Attrition
- Rock fragments carried by the sea knock against one another, causing them to become smaller & rounded
- Hydraulic Action
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