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TOPIC: COASTAL LANDFORMS

Landforms of Coastal Deposition


1. Beaches
A beach is an area of deposition or an accumulation of materials such as sand and/or
pebbles along the coast. Beaches are the most common landforms of coastal
deposition. They are the result of constructive waves. One type of beach is a bay-head
beach, which is a beach formed in a bay for example Maracas Bay. The eroded materials
would be transported by longshore drift and deposited in a bay. This is because the
waves in the bay have less energy than at the headlands. This is caused by the waves
being distorted by the shape of the coastline, a process called wave refraction.

2. Spit
A sandpit is a low narrow ridge of land of sand or pebbles, joined to the mainland at one
end and with the other end terminating into the sea. Sandspits are formed when
sediments are transported along the coast by longshore drift and deposited. They may
develop at headlands or at the mouth of rivers. They have curved ends because of the
direction of the waves (refer to figure 1).

Figure 1 Sandspit
- Overtime the sediment gradually extends into the sea.
- Fine muds are deposited in the very calm sheltered waters behind a spit to form
mudflats and saltmarshes.
3. Tombolo
Occasionally a spit grows away from the shore and becomes attached to an island. This
is called a tombolo (refer to figure 2).

Figure 2 Tombolo
An example is Scotts Head tombolo in Dominica. Another is the Palisadoes tombolo
south of Kingston, Jamaica.

4. Bay-Bar

A bar is a long narrow deposit of sand or shingle that usually forms parallel to the coast.
However, a bay-bar is a deposit of sand or shingle that forms across a bay, often
trapping a freshwater lake or lagoon behind it (refer to figure 3).

Figure 3 Bay-Bar

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