Coast - Coastal Processes

Coastal Processes

The following articles describe the various geologic processes that affect a coastal zone:

  • Attrition
  • Currents
  • Denudation
  • Deposition
  • Erosion
  • Flooding
  • Longshore drift
  • Saltation
  • Sea level change
  • eustatic
  • isostatic
  • Sedimentation
  • Coastal sediment supply
  • sediment transport
  • solution
  • sub-aerial processes
  • suspension
  • Tides
  • Water waves
  • diffraction
  • refraction
  • wave breaking
  • wave shoaling
  • Weathering

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