Coastal erosion and deposition
Depositional feature
Erosion feature
Depositional feature
Erosion feature
Erosion feature
Erosion feature
Erosion feature
Erosion feature
Deposition feature
Deposition feature
Deposition feature
Erosion feature
Erosion feature
Deposition feature
Deposition feature
Deposition feature
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Deposition feature
Coastal deposition and erosion
Beach shallow slope and wide
Stack
Sand and pebble beach with groynes showing how sand
has built up against one side of the groyne
Blow hole or water spout
Headland
Stacks – The Needles off the south coast
An arch and cove – Durdle Door, Dorset coast
Wave cut platform (the old base of the cliff)
Bar – made of shingle – Chesil Bank, Dorset
Beach with groynes (fence like structures to prevent
movement of sand)
Lagoon – off a tropical coast
Cliffs with different rock layers or strata
Cliff – chalk cliffs
Salt marsh
Beach – sandy and quite steep
Spit – Cape off the east coast of the USA
Mud flats
Sand dunes
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