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Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

This group collects the Landform Concepts subcategory's members that name and define coastal and shoreline landforms: the general vocabulary of capes, headlands, cliffs, spits, tombolos, lagoons, estuaries, straits, firths, tidal flats and raised beaches that a coastline builds through wave, tide and longshore action, plus the narrower channels, inlets and narrows that connect open water to sheltered water. Every entry here is a definitional landform-type article rather than one named place, explaining what the term means and how the feature forms so a reader can look up the vocabulary this atlas's named coastal entities use elsewhere.

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Coasts are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape and by aquatic erosion, such as that caused by waves. 1
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Arm (geography)

Landform Concepts
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Armor (hydrology)

Landform Concepts
1 link

Baïne

Landform Concepts
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Barachois

Landform Concepts
2 links

Beach

Landform Concepts
1 link

Beach cusps

Landform Concepts
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Beach ridge

Landform Concepts
2 links

Cape

Landform Concepts
1 link

Channel (geography)

Landform Concepts
1 link

Chenier

Landform Concepts
1 link

Chevron (land form)

Landform Concepts
2 links

Cliffed Coast

Landform Concepts
1 link

Coast

Landform Concepts
1 link

Coastal plain

Landform Concepts
1 link

Coastal waterfall

Landform Concepts
1 link

Cuspate foreland

Landform Concepts
2 links

Estuary

Landform Concepts
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Firth

Landform Concepts
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Flat coast

Landform Concepts
1 link

Gut (coastal geography)

Landform Concepts
1 link

Haff (lagoon)

Landform Concepts

Headland

Landform Concepts
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Inlet

Landform Concepts
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Intertidal Zone

Landform Concepts
1 link

Isthmus

Landform Concepts
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Lagoon

Landform Concepts
1 link

Machair

Landform Concepts
1 link

Médanos (geology)

Landform Concepts
1 link

Moaning sandbar

Landform Concepts
1 link

Narrows

Landform Concepts
2 links

Peninsula

Landform Concepts
2 links

Peresyp

Landform Concepts
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Promontory

Landform Concepts
2 links

Raised Beach

Landform Concepts
2 links

River Delta

Landform Concepts
2 links

Roadstead

Landform Concepts
1 link

Rocky Shore

Landform Concepts
1 link

Salt Marsh

Landform Concepts
1 link

Shoal

Landform Concepts
1 link

Spit

Landform Concepts
1 link

Strait

Landform Concepts
1 link

Strand plain

Landform Concepts
2 links

Strandflat

Landform Concepts
2 links

Surge Channel

Landform Concepts
2 links

Tide Pool

Landform Concepts
1 link

Tombolo

Landform Concepts
2 links

Velma (mudflat)

Landform Concepts
2 links

Windwatt

Landform Concepts
1 link
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Coast
WikipediaCoast, lead section, second sentence (group landform-subtype bucket)
Quote, Coast, lead section, second sentence (group landform-subtype bucket)
Coasts are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape and by aquatic erosion, such as that caused by waves.
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