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16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features

Forces Acting on the Shoreline. 16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features.  A beach is the accumulation of sediment found along the shore of a lake or ocean.

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16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features

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  1. Forces Acting on the Shoreline 16.3Shoreline Processes and Features  A beach is the accumulation of sediment found along the shore of a lake or ocean.  Waves along the shoreline are constantly eroding, transporting, and depositing sediment. Many types of shoreline features can result from this activity.

  2. Forces Acting on the Shoreline 16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features  Wave Impact • The impact of large, high-energy waves against the shore can be awesome in its violence. Each breaking wave may hurl thousands of tons of water against the land, sometimes causing the ground to tremble.  Abrasion • Abrasion is the sawing and grinding action of rock fragments in the water. • Abrasion is probably more intense in the surf zone than in any other environment.

  3. Wave impact

  4. Forces Acting on the Shoreline 16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features  Wave Refraction • Wave refraction is the bending of waves, and it plays an important part in the shoreline process. • Because of refraction, wave energy is concentrated against the sides and ends of headlands that project into the water, whereas wave action is weakened in bays.

  5. Wave Refraction

  6. Forces Acting on the Shoreline 16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features  Longshore Transport • A longshore current is a near-shore current that flows parallel to the shore. • Turbulence allows longshore currents to easily move fine suspended sand and to roll larger sand and gravel particles along the bottom.

  7. Longshore Currents

  8. Erosional Features 16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features  Wave-Cut Cliffs and Platforms • Wave-cut cliffs result from the cutting action of the surf against the base of coastal land. A flat, bench-like, wave-cut platform forms in front of the wave-cut cliff.  Sea Arches and Sea Stacks • When two caves on opposite sides of a headland unite, a sea arch results. Eventually, the arch falls in, leaving an isolated remnant, or sea stack, on the wave-cut platform.

  9. Sea Arch and Sea Stack

  10. Depositional Features 16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features  Barrier Islands • Barrier islands are narrow sandbars parallel to, but separate from, the coast at distances from 3 to 30 kilometers offshore. What barrier islands do you know of that are off the coast of Georgia?

  11. Barrier Islands

  12. Stabilizing the Shore 16.3 Shoreline Processes and Features  Protective Structures • Groins, breakwaters, and seawalls are some structures built to protect a coast from erosion or to prevent the movement of sand along a beach.  Beach Nourishment • Beach nourishment is the addition of large quantities of sand to the beach system.

  13. Miami Beach Before and After Beach Nourishment

  14. Beach nourishment

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