A cliffed coast, also called an abrasion coast, is a form of coast where the action of marine waves has formed steep cliffs that may or may not be precipitous...
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Aegean Sea. A cliffed coast or abrasion coast is one where marine action has produced steep declivities known as cliffs. A flat coast is one where the...
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It comprises 89 square kilometres of countryside with a 23 km long cliffed coast fronting the Bay of Biscay. Inland it comprises hilly country which...
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cliff dwellings. The population of the rare Borderea chouardii, during 2012, existed only on two cliff habitats within western Europe. Cliffed coast List...
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Moher, which once stood on Hag's Head, the southernmost point of the cliffed coast, now the site of Moher Tower. The writer Thomas Johnson Westropp referred...
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designed groyne (too long and not suited to the unique features of the coast) can also accelerate the erosion of the downdrift beach, which receives...
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Rauk (category Coasts of the Baltic Sea)
which extent different rauks in Gotland started to form from a cliffed coast, a dissected coast or from glacial landforms. A comparison of photographs from...
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others are rescued from the Anchorage mudflats each year. On the Baltic Sea coast of Germany in places, mudflats are exposed not by tidal action, but by wind-action...
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and oceanography) and the human geography (sociology and history) of the coast. It includes understanding coastal weathering processes, particularly wave...
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coast where the land descends gradually seawards. The height of the land on a steep coast is well above sea level. Most steep coast are rocky cliffed...
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