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coastal erosion is the wearing away of land or the removal beach or dune sediments by wave action, tidal currents , wave currents, or drainaige. On rocky coasts, coastal erosiom can results in an horrific / dramatic rock formations in areas where the coastline contains rock layer or frature plales with varieng resistance to erosion.
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Which features are commonly formed at the plate boundaries where continental crust converges with oceanic crust?
large vocanic muontain ranges parallel to the coast at the center of the coast
What would your thesis be if you were writing a paper on hurricanes and how they form?
A hurricane is formed in the water and travels a very far distance to the coast
Sandy beaches are formed by?
waves carrying sediment wash along a coast, slow down and deposit sand to form a beach.
How did wave erosion create a headland?
headlands are formed when the sea attacks a section of coast with alternating bands of hard and soft rock
What are two results of wave erosion along a coast?
Two results are:A sea arch,when waves erode a layer of softer rock that underlies a layer a hard rock.Another one is a sea cave,which is formed when ocean waves hit against a steep and rocky coast lots of times.
How was Australia's coast line formed?
it is formed by the water of the ocean to break down rock and minerals on the coast making it what it is
Is a plateau formed inland or by the coast?
Inland
How were the California coast lines formed?
by the sea
How is low formed?
they are formed due to thunderstormic belts found in coast lines margins.
Where are hurricanes formed that hit strongest at the coast of the south eastern US?
west coast of Africa
When was the first hockey league on the east coast invented?
Hockey leagues are FORMED, not invented. The East Coast Hockey League (now known as the ECHL) was formed in 1988.
How many days did it take for Hurricane Irene to hit the North Atlantic Coast from when it formed?
Hurricane Irene made landfall on the U.S. east coast 7 days after it formed.
How were the East's rivers lakes and rugged coast formed?
what is the answere to how were east's rivers,lakes,and rugged cost formed
How where the mountains on the west coast of north America formed?
all volcanic
What formed the thousands of offshore islands off the coast of Maine?
the glacers
Where is Bilbao?
Bilbao is located on the coast of the Bay of Biscay close to the corner of the bay formed by the north coast of Spain and the west coast of France.
When in geologic time was the west coast of America formed?
It is being formed NOW - the American west coast is a destructive plate margin which started in the Jurassic, some 200 million years ago and continues to this day.
