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  2. Wave-cut platform - Wikipedia

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    Wave-cut platform at Southerndown, South Wales, UK. A wave-cut platform, shore platform, coastal bench, or wave-cut cliff is the narrow flat area often found at the base of a sea cliff or along the shoreline of a lake, bay, or sea that was created by erosion. Wave-cut platforms are often most obvious at low tide when they become visible as huge ...

  3. River terraces (tectonic–climatic interaction) - Wikipedia

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    Changes in the steepness of the stream gradient, the amount of sediment contained in the river, and the total amount of water flowing through the system, all influence how a river behaves. There is a delicate equilibrium that controls a river system, which, when disturbed, causes flooding and incising events to occur and produce terracing. [3] [4]

  4. Terrace (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A marine terrace represents the former shoreline of a sea or ocean. It can be formed by marine abrasion or erosion of materials comprising the shoreline (marine-cut terraces or wave-cut platforms); the accumulations of sediments in the shallow-water to slightly emerged coastal environments (marine-built terraces or raised beach); or the bioconstruction by coral reefs and accumulation of reef ...

  5. Cliffed coast - Wikipedia

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    On a cliffed coast made up of material which is only fairly or even hardly resistant to erosion no wave-cut platform but a beach is formed in front of the sea cliff. If waves carve notches at a narrow point on both sides of a promontory on the rocky cliffed coast, a natural arch may be formed. [4] When the arch collapses as the coastline ...

  6. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Wave-cut platform

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    Wave-cut platform, a geological feature caused by the sea's erosion of cliffs, seen at Southerndown, near Bridgend, South Wales. File:Wavecut platform small.jpg Downsampled to 1595x800, virtually no detail loss, but got rid of edge (compression) effects and softness, image is still large enough.

  7. Abrasion (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Abrasion platforms are shore platforms where wave action abrasion is a prominent process. If it is currently being fashioned, it will be exposed only at low tide, but there is a possibility that the wave-cut platform will be hidden sporadically by a mantle of beach shingle (the abrading agent).

  8. 'Rogue' or 'sneaker?' What caused the giant wave in the ... - AOL

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    The wave caused significant damage to Dyess Army Field and Freeflight International Airport. Kwajalein Atoll -- colloquially referred to as "Kwaj" by residents -- is a ring of islands in the ...

  9. Coastal erosion - Wikipedia

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    Coastal erosion may be caused by hydraulic action, abrasion, impact and corrosion by wind and water, and other forces, natural or unnatural. [ 3 ] On non-rocky coasts, coastal erosion results in rock formations in areas where the coastline contains rock layers or fracture zones with varying resistance to erosion.