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12 Cards in this Set
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Cove |
A small bay with a narrow inlet |
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Destructive wave |
A strong wave that removes material from the coastline |
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Discordant coastline |
A coast where bands of hard and soft rocks lie at right angles to the coastline forming headlands and bays |
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Erosion |
The wearing away and removal of material by a moving force, such as a river, a breaking wave or a glacier |
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Fetch |
The distance a wave has travelled towards the coastline over open water, the longer the fetch the more powerful the wave |
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Freeze thaw weathering |
The process of rocks breaking up from the repeated freezing and thawing |
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Groyne |
Timber or rock structure built out to sea to trap sediment being moved by long shore drift |
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Hard engineering |
Building artificial structures such as sea walls aimed at controlling natural processes |
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Headland |
A point of usually high land hitting out into the sea |
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Hydraulic power |
The sheer power of the waves |
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Lagoon |
A fresh water lake formed when a bay is cut off from the sea by a beach bar |
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Landslide |
A type of mass movement common at the coast involving material slipping downhill usually along a curved slip surface |
