Deposition of material eroded from coastal areas is aided by waves and currents and deposition of the transports material is aided by oceanic currents. The material is selectively deposit along the coast. As the coast is approaches, the larger particles are deposited first, and they are found closest to the coast. The finest particles, on the other hand, are deposites last and are often deposites farther from the coast.
Sea waves and Currents also create a few depositional landforms such as beach, bar, barrier, spit and hook, tombolos etc.
Coastal Depositional Landforms
- Beaches:
- Beaches are deposits of loose sediment adjacent to a body of water. In addition to sand, beaches around the world have a remarkable diversity of sediment size, from boulders to fine silt.
- Spits and Bars:
- Spits:
- A sand spit is a linear accumulation of sediment that is attach to land at one end.
- They usually develop where the coastline bends inland from the longshore drift direction. The spit follows the longshore direction of the updrift coast.
- Bars:
- Spits:
What are the Landforms Formed by Glaciers?
- Glaciers have played a major role in the shaping of landscapes in the middle and high latitudes and in alpine environments. They are remarkably effective at eroding soil and rock, transporting sediment, and depositing sediment.
- A glacier is a mass of ice that moves over land as sheets (continental glacier or piedmont glacier) or as linear flows flowing down slopes of mountains into valleys (mountain and valley glacier).
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