Wave Erosion

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Wave Erosion
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Wave cut cliff on an irregular coastline
stacks
Sea cliff
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Longshore Currents
Produce Deposition
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beach
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Barrier beach forming
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Lagoon forming
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hook
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tombolo
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tombolo
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Long shore current
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Rip current
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Cape Cod
Effects of longshore currents
Barrier Beach
Marthas Vineyard
Nantucket
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Regular shoreline in Hawaii
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Regular shoreline on Outer Banks of North Carolina
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deposition
erosion
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What direction would the waves come In to deposit
these beaches?
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Trapped Sand
Close up of sand trapped by groin at Breezy
Point, Queens, NY
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