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currents
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A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, esp. through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.
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tides
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The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon
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headlands
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A narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea.
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coastline
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The outline of a coast, esp. with regard to its shape and appearance.
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swell
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is a series of surface gravity waves that is not generated by the local wind.
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swash
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known as a turbulent layer of water that washes up on the beach after an incoming wave has broken.
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backwash
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The motion of receding waves.
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longshore current
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consists of the transportation of sediments (clay, silt, sand and shingle) along a coast at an angle to the shoreline, which is dependent on prevailing wind direction, swash and backwash.
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wave refraction
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The process by which the direction of a wave train moving in shallow water.
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sea stacks
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a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, isolated by erosion
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sea arches
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An opening through a headland, formed by wave erosion or solution (as by the enlargement of a sea cave, or by the meeting
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sea cliff
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An erosional landform, produced by wave action, which is either at the seaward edge of.
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bay
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A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
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lagoon
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A stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef.
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spit
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A stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef.
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baymouth bar
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is a depositional feature as a result of longshore drift. It is a spit that completely closes access to a bay, thus sealing it off from the main body of water.
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barrier island
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a long narrow sandy island (wider than a reef) running parallel to the shore.
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tombolo
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A bar of sand or shingle joining an island to the mainland.
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coral reefs
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a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone.
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