TRANSPORTATION

EROSION

DEPOSITION

Coastal Processes

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DEFINITION

Wave carry or transport eroded materials along its journey

The eroded materials are called .

Sediments

By now, You should already know the four ways how river transported its load.

Note that transportation process in coastal areas are the same as the transportation process in the river

Larger particles like boulders and rocks roll or slide along the river bed by the strong river flow.

Smaller particles like gravels and stones are lifted and dropped along the river, so they bounce along the river bed in a hopping motion.

Finer particles such as clay, fine sand and silt are carried along the river without contact with the river bed. Because the river water is moving, the fine particles or loads are almost able to float, and they are suspended in the moving water.

Dissolved materials containing minerals like limestone rocks are slowly dissolved by rainwater and are carried away by the river. This type of transportation is difficult to see with the naked eye but they are in the water.

The journey of a pebble

My life's a single pebble The tide Pebble the beach, takes from Lost among the breakers The shore is out of reach.
I drift so far from others, My hope is out of hand, Im getting older, smallerrolled to a distant land. I started as a cliff, And now Ive turned to sand.
By Mr Pebble

What the pebble used to look like

Erosion
I broke off the cliff
The waves were crashing under me , it was a stormy night. I could feel everything vibrating, then suddenly I started to break off, I tried to hold on, but I was heavy, I started to fall. I landed in.it was cold I kept spinning around. other rocks kept bumping in to me

Transportation
A Bumpy Ride

Scared and cold I was thrown around by the oceans force, I was rolling around the sea floor, other rocks bashing into me, the waves carried me away further from my home. .. rolling, bounced, carried, dropped

Long shore drift

Overall process of transportation Continual swash and backwash transport materials sideways along the coast

The movement of materials is called long shore drift

Occur in Zigzag pattern

References
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