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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
Coastal and Shoreline Landforms
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Arm (geography)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Armor (hydrology)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Baïne

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Barachois

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Beach

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Beach cusps

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Beach ridge

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Cape

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Channel (geography)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Chenier

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Chevron (land form)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Cliffed Coast

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Coast

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Coastal plain

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Coastal waterfall

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Cuspate foreland

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Estuary

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Firth

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Flat coast

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Gut (coastal geography)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Haff (lagoon)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Headland

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Inlet

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Intertidal Zone

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Isthmus

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Lagoon

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Machair

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Médanos (geology)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Moaning sandbar

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Narrows

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Peninsula

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Peresyp

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Promontory

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Raised Beach

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

River Delta

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Roadstead

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Rocky Shore

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Salt Marsh

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Shoal

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Spit

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Strait

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Strand plain

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Strandflat

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Surge Channel

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Tide Pool

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Tombolo

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Velma (mudflat)

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms

Windwatt

Coastal and Shoreline Landforms
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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