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Longshore current, sometimes called longshore drift, is an ocean current that flows parallel to and close to the shore. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article.
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Is longshore drift the cause or the effect of a longshore?
Longshore drift is the effect of longshore current because the water moves a certain way and causes the sand to take shape.
If waves strike the beach what will produce?
Longshore current
What is a water current that moves sand in a zigzag pattern along a beach?
Longshore Current..
Is longshore drift the cause or the effect of a longshore current explain?
effect. longshore drift is the combined effect of sediments moved by longshore currents and and beach drift. longshore currents are ocean currents that flow parallel to the coast while beach drift is the resultant zigzag movement along the beach.
What is the differences between shoreline and longshore current?
Shoreline is where land and a body of water meet and longshore is a movement of water parallel to and near to the shoreline.
What pattern does a longshore current make?
what pattern does a longshore current make?
What is a stream of water that flows parallel to a coast?
longshore current
What is the difference between longshore drift and longshore current?
Current is with water and drift is moving sediments in the current
What kinds of landforms do longshore drift and longshore currents produce?
what is a current
What kinds of landforms do longshore currents and longshore drift produce?
what is a current
What kind of landforms do longshore drift and longshore currents produce?
what is a current
What is the process by which beach sediment moves down the beach with the current?
the process in which beach sediment move down a beach with the current
Is longshore drift the cause or the effect of a longshore?
Longshore drift is the effect of longshore current because the water moves a certain way and causes the sand to take shape.
What is a organism for longshore current?
nook
How does longshore current affect the shore?
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Would there be a longshore current in a lagoon behind a long sandbar?
yes, so long as there are waves there will be a backwash together there will be a longshore current.
If waves strike the beach what will produce?
Longshore current
