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How do shoreline processes tend to straighten an initially irregular shoreline? What will be an ideal response?

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How do marine terraces form? What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Wave refraction causes more wave energy to be expended on headlands and less on embayments so
that headlands erode and some of the sediment yielded by erosion is deposited in the embayments



Answer to Question 2

They are old wave-cut platforms that have been elevated above sea level.





 

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