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How do waves erode rock?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 3/19/2021

In three ways: by sheer force of impact, by electromagnetic disruption of molecular bonds and by dissolution of minerals. You can't see any of this happening in usual time, but if you visit an area of shoreline after many years, you'll see where it's happened.

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