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Coastal erosion

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Coastal Erosion - Behind the News

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What is Coastal Erosion?

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The 4 coastal processes of erosion with timeforgeography.co.uk

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Coastal erosion processes

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Sea Stack: A Landform of Coastal Erosion

There are two common definitions of coastal erosion. First, coastal erosion is often defined as the loss or displacement of land along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides. wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms. This landward retreat of the shoreline is measured to a given datum over a temporal scale of tides, seasons, and other short-term cyclic processes. Finally, coastal erosion is also defined as the process of long-term removal of sediment and rocks at the coastline, leading to loss of land and retreat of the coastline landward. It may be caused by hydraulic action, abrasion, impact and corrosion by wind, water, and other forces, natural or unnatural.