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COASTLINES

FEATURES OF A COASTLINE FORMATION
Bedding OF A STACK
plane
Inlet Sea cave
Fallen rock enlarged
Tidal river by erosion
mouth debris
Tributary Slumped
cliff Stack EROSION OF
remains SEA CAVE
Sea cave
completely
eroded through

Sea cliff
COLLAPSE OF
SEA CAVE

Lintel

Stack

Arch
Sea cave
Bay
Boulder
beach EMERGENT COASTLINES
Old sea Old sea
Stump
Exposed Raised cliff cave
Sediment wave-cut beach
deposited by New platform
longshore drift sea cliff
Sandy spit New
beach
Lagoon
High
Estuarine mudflat tide level
DROWNED COASTLINES
Low tide
Fjord Angular Mountain level
(submerged mountain ridge parallel
glacial valley) ridge to coast HIGHLAND COASTLINE
Valley deepened by
Sound New coastal Old river downcutting
(drowned plain coastline toward new sea level
valley)

New
coastline

FJORD COASTLINE DALMATIAN/PACIFIC LOWLAND COASTLINE
COASTLINE
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