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What kinds of landforms do longshore drift and longshore currents produce?
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What is the zig zag movement of sand along the shoreline?
Longshore drift is the process that moves sand and other sediments along a shoreline. It is also referred to as longshore transport or littoral drift.
How does longshore drift happen?
The process of longshore drift is waves hit up against the sand and the sand grains are taken by the waves back into the sea and back to shore again, this is called swash ans backwash.
What is the name of the supercontinent in the continent drift?
Pangaea (also Pangea) was the collection of all land masses on Earth around 250 million years ago, which broke into the current landforms through continental drift. Pangaea is from the Latin for "entire Earth".
What caused continental drift?
volcanos, mountains
What landforms were created when the plates slammed into each other during the continental drift?
It can generate raised landmasses such as mountains because of the plates moving over and under each other.
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 long shore drift and long shore currents produce?
Spits are formed when longshore drift travels past a point where the dominant drift direction and shoreline do not veer in the same direction.
What kind of landforms do long shore drift and long shore currents produce?
Spits are formed when longshore drift travels past a point where the dominant drift direction and shoreline do not veer in the same direction.
What kinds of landforms do long shore drifts and long shore currents produce?
Spits are formed when longshore drift travels past a point where the dominant drift direction and shoreline do not veer in the same direction.
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.
Is longshore drift the cause or 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.
How do groynes stop continental drift?
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.
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
How might longshore currents and long shore drift affect attempts to reopen Midnight Pass?
erosion or sloping it
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 drift in longshore drift?
Beach sediment
