Coastal landforms Coastal landforms created by erosion include headlands, bays and cliffs. Landforms created by deposition include spits, salt marshes and beaches.

Waves, tide, and wind dominate coastal processes and landforms. Rivers deliver sediment to the coast, where it can be reworked to form deltas, beaches, dunes, and barrier islands.

Groups were reviewed and re-interpreted in order to highlight relationships between coastal landforms and variables. Three factors fully describe the main coastal types and constraints. First factor ...

Coastal landforms - erosional and depositional processes - Edexcel Erosional landforms include headlands, bays, caves, arches, stacks, stumps and wave-cut platforms.

A growing appreciation of the needs to manage whole coastal landforms and landscapes is beginning to supersede traditional site-specific structural engineering approaches.