7) Shorelines, Tidal Flats and Stormy Coasts

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Shoreline Processes

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GEOL-201Shoreline Processes

Variations in tidal range

> 4 m 2-4 m < 2 m

Depositional features on tidal flats

Bedding related to daily tidal

flows

Hummocky cross-

stratification: effects of

storm waves below the

fair-weather wave base

Storm-swept coasts

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, V. 43, p. 1165, 2006

“diachronous”