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What is the differences between shoreline and longshore current?
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∙ 10y ago
Shoreline is where land and a body of water meet and longshore is a movement of water parallel to and near to the shoreline.
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What is a longshore current?
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.
How is a barrier spit formed?
Formation of a Barrier SpitBarrier Spits are formed by the process of Longshore Drift. What is Longshore Drift?Longshore drift, sometimes known as drifting, longshore current, LSD (not common as it typically refers to a drug) or littoral drift is the movement of sediments, most often sand, along a coast parallel to its shoreline.
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..
What is the difference between longshore drift and longshore current?
Current is with water and drift is moving sediments in the current
What pattern does a longshore current make?
what pattern does a longshore current make?
How is a longshore current different from undertow?
A rip current is when a tide cannot escape directly, maybe because it is trapped in front of a reef, sandbank or something. When the water finds an exit point, it all rushes out at top speed, therefore sending whatever is in the water at the time out to see. Meanwhile, a longshore current is when something ( the wind ) is angling the water's course as it heads towards the shore, therefore creating a current running parallel to the beach. Longshore.
What is a stream of water that flows parallel to a coast?
longshore current
What is a longshore current?
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.
How is a barrier spit formed?
Formation of a Barrier SpitBarrier Spits are formed by the process of Longshore Drift. What is Longshore Drift?Longshore drift, sometimes known as drifting, longshore current, LSD (not common as it typically refers to a drug) or littoral drift is the movement of sediments, most often sand, along a coast parallel to its shoreline.
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 kinds 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
