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Deposition occurs when the sea loses its energy. Waves, tides and local currents combine to drop sand and shingle at particular locations.
The load carried by the waves is itself worn down by constant rolling and knocking together.
This is why beach pebbles are usually rounded.
Ultimately, sand is formed this way.
As waves break against the coast, air is trapped and compressed in small crevices in rocks.
When the wave moves away, the air is released.
This expansion and compression shatters rock.
Salts in sea water can dissolve rock by chemical means.
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Chalk and limestone coasts are more easily eroded this way.
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This is the movement of material along the coast.
It occurs because the coastline is irregular and waves do not brake parallel to the coast, because of wave refraction.
The swash moves sediment up the shore at an angle an the backwash pulls the sediment back out to sea at a right angle to the shore.
The result of longshore drift is that most of the sea's energy is spent moving material up the and down the shore.
This is why a sandy beach is the nest natural protection a coastline could have from sea erosion.
Breaking waves also produce currents which flow parallel to the shore.
Where the waves brake, known as the surf zone, the water is turbulent and carries fine sand grains in suspension and rolls larger pebbles along the sea floor.
These local currents along the shore can be very powerful and can carry swimmers along parallel to the coast quite quickly.
Huge amounts of material are carried along our coastline each day.
Waves and currents are constantly moving sand along the coast due to a process called longshore drift.
The crushing force of tonnes of water in each wave wears the land away.
The pressure exerted by Atlantic waves in water average nearly 10,000kg/m2.
Hydraulic action is most effective on soft coastlines such as Louth, Dublin and Wexford.
Waves throw stones and sand against the coast wearing it away.
Abrasion is most effective at high tide and during storms.