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Coastal landforms and Physical oceanography topographic landforms; Subcategories. This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total. ...
Raised beach – Emergent coastal landform; Rapids – River section with increased velocity and turbulence; Ravine – Small valley, often due to stream erosion; Ria – Coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley; Ridge – Long, narrow, elevated landform; Riffle – Shallow landform in a flowing channel
The following articles describe some coastal landforms: Coastal landforms. The feature shown here as a bay would, in certain (mainly southern) parts of Britain, be called a cove. That between the cuspate foreland and the tombolo is a British bay.
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape. [1] Headlands are characterised by high, breaking waves, rocky shores, intense erosion, and steep sea cliff.
1. Some landforms appear more than once when they are shared by more than one county (inter-county landforms): the Shannon Estuary, for example, is shared by counties Clare, Limerick, and Kerry. 2. Some different features have the same name, such as Mizen Head in Cork and Mizen Head in Wicklow. 3.
Coastal geography is the study of the constantly changing region between the ocean and the land, incorporating both the physical geography (i.e. coastal geomorphology, climatology and oceanography) and the human geography (sociology and history) of the coast.
Coastal plains can form in one of two ways; some begin as a continental shelf, a flat piece of land located below sea level, and are created when the ocean level falls, exposing the land. Others develop when river currents carry sediment into the ocean, which is deposited and builds up over time until it forms a coastal plain.
A submergent landform: the drowned river valley ... The Western Coastal Plains of the Indian subcontinent, ... Australia is an example of a ria or drowned river valley.