how waves affect shorelines
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- Also, waves do not typically reach the beach perfectly parallel to the shoreline. Rather, they arrive at a slight angle, called the “angle of wave approach.”. When a wave reaches a beach or coastline, it releases a burst of energy that generates a current, which runs parallel to the shoreline. This type of current is called a “longshore current.”.
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How does erosion and deposition affect a coastline? If you're asking if the erosion occurs along a coastline, it's different than how erosion, in general, allows for the deposition of sediments along a coastline. More specifically, erosion is a general term for the many processes that breakdown matter, and it can be chemical or physical (oxidation vs frost wedging, for example). The coastline, generally speaking, is a collection of deposited sediment from all over the place.
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- Tsunamis and seiches can also cause a great deal of damage. A tsunami is what most people call a tidal wave, but it has nothing to do with the tides on the ocean. It is a huge wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean. Tsunamis can be tens of feet high when they hit the shore and can do enormous damage to the coastline. Seiches are like small tsunamis.
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Tsunami As they reach the shallow waters of the coast, the waves slow down and the water can pile up into a wall of destruction tens of meters (30 ft) or more in height. The effect can be amplified where a bay, harbor or lagoon funnels the wave as it moves inland. Large tsunamis have been known to rise over 30 meters (100 ft).
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- One of the shoreline features that is created by erosion is a wave-cut cliff, which is a steep rock face created by the eroding action of waves. As waves continue to hit the cliff, it retreats farther inland, leaving behind a wave-cut platform, which is a somewhat flat area found at the base of a wave-cut cliff.
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The effects of erosion, earthquakes and volcanoes Coastal erosion. The sea shapes the coastal landscape. Coastal erosion is the wearing away and breaking up of rock along the coast. Destructive waves erode the coastline in a number of ways: 1  Hydraulic action.2  Air may become trapped in joints and cracks on a cliff face. 3  When a wave breaks, the trapped air is compressed which weakens the cliff and causes erosion.4  Abrasion.oastal erosion is the wearing away and breaking up of rock along the coast. Destructive waves erode the coastline in a number of ways: 1  Hydraulic action. 2  Air may become trapped in joints and cracks on a cliff face. 3  When a wave breaks, the trapped air is compressed which weakens the cliff and causes erosion. 4  Abrasion.
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Types of Currents Longshore Current. As the name suggestions, longshore currents move parallel to or the ‘long’ way along the shoreline. These currents will exert a force to move along shore, making it difficult to remain in front of a spot on the beach. They often happen between the first and second sandbars near the shore.
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Shoreline & Waterway Management Beach grass has adapted to being buried by the sand and it makes its way to the new surface as it gets buried. In time of large ocean storms waves crash into the dunes and the sand is re-supplied to the beach on front, which has been eroded in the early stages of the storm. The relationship of the beach and dune is an important symbiosis. One which we respect and shape our beach management program around.
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Seawalls Although seawalls prevent erosion of protected shorelines, where the seawall ends, the coast remains free to respond to natural conditions. This means that undefended areas adjacent to the wall could move inland causing a stepped appearance to the coast (French, 2001).
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- 1 Over 800 miles of bulkheads and other hard structures now edge Puget Sound -- an estimated 1/3 of the total Puget Sound shoreline. 2  Bulkheads and other hard structures can cause severe damage to nearby beaches.  Shoreline property owners and fish, plants, and wildlife would all benefit from alternatives to bulkheads.
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- Coastal currents are intricately tied to winds, waves, and land formations. Winds that blow along the shoreline—longshore winds—affect waves and, therefore, currents. Before one can understand any type of surface current, one must understand how wind and waves operate.
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Shoreline Stabilization The adverse effects of traditional shoreline stabilization methods can be significant, as hard erosion-control solutions do not provide the water quality or habitat benefits of a natural or restored vegetated shoreline. Adverse changes to natural resources include the following: 1  Reduced or degraded habitat for breeding, spawning, nesting, feeding, growing, escaping from predators, and thermoregulation and/or loafing for a variety of fish and wildlife species; 2  Impaired movement of organisms between aquatic and terrestrial habitat;
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Tides and Water Levels In estuaries with strong tidal rivers, such as the Delaware River and Columbia River, powerful seasonal river flows in the spring can severely alter or mask the incoming tide. Local wind and weather patterns also can affect tides. Strong offshore winds can move water away from coastlines, exaggerating low tide exposures. Onshore winds may act to pile up water onto the shoreline, virtually eliminating low tide exposures.
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- These “fore-runner” and “post-runner” surges can actually cause unexpected coastal flooding, damage property, and endanger lives. Local topographic features such as buildings, levees, wetlands, sand dunes, and barrier islands reduce storm surge, wave forces, and coastal flooding.
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Sand dune stabilization Humans affect sediment supply in a number of ways including the damming of rivers, dredging in coastal water and the construction of harbours, all of which depletes sediment supply. They also disrupt the long shore transport of sediment through the construction of piers, marinas or groynes, breakwaters and other hard structures
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US East Coast Faces Variety of Tsunami Threats While the tsunami was catastrophic for Newfoundland, it created only small waves for most of the U.S. coast and didn't cause any fatalities there. That's typical of tsunamis from submarine landslides: They tend to be large for nearby areas but quickly taper off, ten Brink said.
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Ch. 3-flashcards The flat, wide area of land along a river is called a meander. How do ocean waves form, and how do they change to cause water to erode land along a shoreline? Ocean waves form as wind makes contact
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- When a wave strikes the shore, the energy in the waves is unleashed and can cause erosion of the coastline or destruction of property. In Fig.1 above, the rocks absorb the energy. The waves also give energy to a boat by making it move up and down. During a storm, the energy in the waves may be enough to damage the boat.
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Coasts of Erosion Coasts of Erosion. Coasts of erosion form as a result of high energy waves, large fetch, high exposure and limited deposition. They are also associated with drift alligned coasts that are influenced by longshore drift. This transfer of sediment along the coast limits the development of beaches and leads to greater cliff exposure, hence cliff retreat.
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Island Beach State Park Shoreline sand movement. The wind and the sea are constantly moving the sand you see on the beach. Sand is deposited on the beach by waves with a weak backwash. The material brought onto the beach either comes from the sandy bottom under the water or from other areas of the beach. A strong backwash has the opposite effect. A destructive wave pulls sand from the beach into the water.
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coastal erosion Explain how littoral transport takes place and how long shore drift is related to direction of wave approach. Sand movement parallel to the shoreline in the swash and surf zone. This movement includes two processes - beach drift and longshore drift. Beachdrift is the zig zag movement of beach material in the swash zone on the coastline. The second is the primary mechanism for littoral transport.
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Coastal Erosion Factors Affecting the Rate of Erosion. The biggest factor affecting coastal erosion is the strength of the waves breaking along the coastline. A wave’s strength is controlled by its fetch and the wind speed. Longer fetches & stronger winds create bigger, more powerful waves that have more erosive power.
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Earth The effects of tides are most noticeable along ocean shorelines. As the Moon orbits Earth, the waters of Earth closest to the Moon bulge outward toward the Moon. This bulge is the high tide. Another high tide occurs on the opposite side of Earth. Low tides occur in the areas between the two high tides.
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CHAPTER 7 COASTAL ZONES AND PROCESSES the neighbor to the north built a jetty or breakwater. You own shoreline property on a coast where the longshore current is dominantly south to north. After an absence of a year, you returned to find that your boat dock no longer reached the water, but was surrounded by beach sand.
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The Effects of Coastal Erosion on Shoreline Features Coastal erosion, which is the wearing away of coastal land or beaches, is mainly caused by the impact of waves along the shoreline. This is accentuated during storms when waves are large and crash on shore with a lot of energy.