Waves

How do waves wear away at the land 

Headlands and bays 

• These form along coast that have alternating resistant (harder) and less resistant (softer) rock 
• The resistant rock will be worn away less quickly leaving the headland which sticks out of the sea where softer rock erodes more quickly and a bay will be formed 

Clifs and wave-cut platforms 

• erosion is the greates when large waves actully break against the foot of the cliff
• the foot of the cliff is the undercut to form wave-cut notch  
• As the notch gets larger, the clif above it will…