Longshore drift is a problem in Chichester harbour because the residents houses around the harbour are going to be destroyed by the sea if they don't do something to protect them. luckily though they have built sea walls and are doing the best the can to prevent it but the defences that they have put in place wont last for ever.
Spits are formed when longshore drift travels past a point where the dominant drift direction and shoreline do not veer in the same direction.
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Spits are formed when longshore drift travels past a point where the dominant drift direction and shoreline do not veer in the same direction.
Longshore drift is the process of sediment moving along a beach due to wave action. It is driven by the longshore current, which is a current that flows parallel to the shoreline. Therefore, longshore drift is the result or effect of a longshore current.
throught the processes of long shore drift and transportation & deposition
Longshore drift and longshore currents can produce landforms such as spits, tombolos, barrier islands, and sand dunes. These landforms are typically found along coasts with significant wave action and sediment movement.
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The direction of longshore drift is typically parallel to the coastline. It moves sediment and materials along the shoreline in a zigzag pattern due to the angle of incoming waves.
Devices: Wave power generators. Groynes. Natural processes: Long-shore drift.
Longshore drift or laminar flow occurs along beachs where the surf comes in at a horizontal angle to the beach. If the beach runs North-South, and the waves come in from the Southwest, you're likely to experience longshore drift to the North.
They don't. Groynes inhibit longshore drift. Longshore drift occurs when currents develop parallel to a shoreline as a result of wave action, carrying sediment with them. Groynes catch sediment and interfere with these currents. Continental drift, a part of plate tectonics, is a completely unrelated process.