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can someone please help and tell me the difference between a rocky coastline and a coastal plain. IT WOULD HELP A LOT!
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I would guess a rocky coastline is a coastline of destructive nature, with high energy waves over a long fetch, bands of hard rock with resistance to wave erosion to form promontories. Whereas a coastal plain is a submerged shelf beneath the sea. This would mean an area with constructive waves and a low energy coastline that allow the development of an offshore platform and sediment accretion and accumulation of cliff material due to rockfalls and landslides. Whereas on a high energy coastline, cliff material is eroded and washed out to sea.
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Rocky coastline is cliffed. Coastal plain is beach.
Original post by Phoenixfeather99
Rocky coastline is cliffed. Coastal plain is beach.

thanks:smile:
Original post by Deggs_14
I would guess a rocky coastline is a coastline of destructive nature, with high energy waves over a long fetch, bands of hard rock with resistance to wave erosion to form promontories. Whereas a coastal plain is a submerged shelf beneath the sea. This would mean an area with constructive waves and a low energy coastline that allow the development of an offshore platform and sediment accretion and accumulation of cliff material due to rockfalls and landslides. Whereas on a high energy coastline, cliff material is eroded and washed out to sea.

this would be helpful if it wasn't for the fact I have never done geography before my second week doing it in a level
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Original post by a n o h a
this would be helpful if it wasn't for the fact I have never done geography before my second week doing it in a level

Ooh in that case the physical will be harder. Best of luck though.
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Ooh in that case the physical will be harder. Best of luck though.

finding it better now had to do loads of revision to catch up, thanks tho

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