when weak acids in seawater dissolve either alkaline rock or
an alkaline cement which bonds the rock particles together
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Card 17
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a process by which the financial, social and environmental costs are
weighed up against the benefits of a proposal in terms of social
outcomes as well as in terms of profit and loss
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Card 18
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a triangular-shaped headland that extends out from the main
coastline, where a coast is exposed to longshore drift from
opposite directions
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a type of concordant coastline formed as a result of a rise in
sea level when valleys flooded leaving the tops of the ridges
above the surface of the sea as offshore islands
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a high, plunging wave that crashes onto a beach and has a
powerful backwash causing sediment to be pulled back
towards the sea
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the angle at which rock strata lie
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an area where the geology alternates between bands of
more-resistant and less-resistant rock, which run at right
angles to the coast
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when two spits extend from opposites sides of an estuary
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where sediment is transferred along the coast by longshore
drift producing a pattern of sediment size and roundness
which varies between one location on a beach and another
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Card 25
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when a fall in sea level exposes land previously covered by
the sea
