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What is created when a long shore current moves sediments from the shore line to a area in the water?
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How does a long shore current affect the shore?
It erodes the sand then forms a sandbar and moves the sand down the beach
When a river empties into the ocean which sediments are deposited closest to the shore?
The heaviest sediments like sand, small pebbles, and other detritus drop out of the current first. Lighter sediments like like silt are carried farther out.
Is longshore drift the cause or effect of a longshore current?
Angled waves create a current that runs parallel to the coatline. As waves repeatedly hit the beach, some of the beach sediment moves down the beach with the current.
What is the deposit of sediments parallel to the shore?
beach
What processes created Kalahari desert?
A cold current off shore.
What is a movement of sediments along a beach shore called?
longshore drift
A rivers current carries sediments into the ocean. Which sediment size will most likely be deposited in deeper water farthest from the shore?
The largest sediment will end up in deeper water.This image should help
When was On the Shore created?
On the Shore was created in 1970-10.
What is a long shore current?
A long shore current is sometimes flows along the shore and it also pull people away from the place where they entered the water
What is short shore drift?
Short shore drift consists of the transportation of sediment (clay, silt, sand and shingle) along a coast at an angle to the shoreline, which is dependent on prevailing wind direction, swash and backwash. This process occurs in the littoral zone, and in or close to the surf zone. The process is also known as short shore transport or littoral drift.Short shore drift is influenced by numerous aspects of the coastal system, with processes that occur within the surf zone largely influencing the deposition and erosion of sediments. Short shore currents can generate oblique breaking waves which result in short shore transport.Short shore drift can generally be defined in terms of the systems within the surf zone as seen in figure 1. This figure shows that sediment transport along the shore and surf zone is influenced by the swash (occurs in the direction of prevailing wind), which moves the pebble up the beach at the angle of the waves, and moves the pebble back down the beach due to the influence of gravity.Short shore drift affects numerous sediment sizes as it works in slightly different ways depending on the sediment (e.g. the difference in long shore drift of sediments from a sandy beach to that of sediments from a shingle beach). Sand is largely affected by the oscillatory force of breaking waves, the motion of sediment due to the impact of breaking waves and bed shear from long shore current. Whereas because shingle beaches are much steeper than sandy ones, plunging breakers are more likely to form, causing the majority of long shore transport to occur in the swash zone, due to a lack of surf zone.
When was The Fatal Shore created?
The Fatal Shore was created in 1987.
When was Close to Shore created?
Close to Shore was created in 2001.
