Coastal landforms

English: Overview of different types of coasts

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Rocks sticking out of the sea

Stacks

A stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.

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  Apostles, Australia
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  Old man of Hoy, Scotland, UK

Land under sea

Reefs

A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water.

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  Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean
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  Coral reef
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  Reef and islands of an Atoll, Ontong Java, Clouds
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  New Caledonia coast, reef and mouth of river La Néra

Shoals

A shoal or sandbar (also called sandbank) is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles.

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  Sandbanks in the mouth of the Thames, North Sea
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  Nordfriesland, Germany
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  Uruguay, near Pando Creek

Lagoons

A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.

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  Lagos dos Patos, Brazil
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  Venice, Italy

Tidal landforms

Mudflats

Mudflats are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.

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  Saint Malo (France) - low tide
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  Saint Malo (France) - high tide
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  Mont Saint-Michel (France) - low tide
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  Mont Saint-Michel (France) - high tide
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  Waddenzee (Netherlands) - low tide

Beaches

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles.

Sand and pebble beaches

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  Sand beach in the Netherlands
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  Beach with sand and cobbles in Ecuador
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  Cobble beach in England, UK

Boulder beaches

Boulder beaches

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  South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
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  West Bengalen

Rock beaches

Rock beaches

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  Bruce Peninsula National Park, Canada
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  Solidified lava on the beach of Pico, Azores
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  Ulko-Tammio, Finland

Wave-cut platforms

A wave-cut platform is a narrow flat area that was created by erosion.

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  South Wales, UK
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  Étretat, France

Sea cliffs

A sea cliff is a form of coast where the action of marine waves has formed steep cliffs.

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  Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
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  Étretat, France

Wave-cut notches

Wave-cut notches are created by waves at the base of a cliff.

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  Étretat, France
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  Bonifacio, Corsica, France

Headlands

A headland is a narrow strip of land, largely surrounded by water.

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  Turquoise Coast, Turkey
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  Wales, UK

Spits

A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores.

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  Veleka, Black Sea, Bulgarije
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  Farewell Spit, New Zealand

Capes

A cape is a headland or a promontory of large size extending into a body of water, usually the sea.

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  Lopatka Cape, Russia
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  Cape Ose, Japan

Peninsulas

A peninsula is a landform surrounded by water on the majority of its border while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.

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  Iberian Peninsula, (Portugal & Spain)
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  Arabian Peninsula (map, 1606)
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  Korean Peninsula

Coastal dunes

A coastal dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water, along the coast.

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  The Netherlands
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  Germany
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  France

Inlets

An inlet is an indentation of a shoreline. From small to big:

Coves

A cove is a small type of bay.

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  California, USA
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  Bulgaria

Bays

A bay is a part of a sea or ocean that invades the land.

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  Italy
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  Honolulu, Hawaï
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  Spain

Calanques

A calanque is a steep-sided valley formed within karstic regions.

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  France
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  France
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  France

Fjords

A fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.

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  Geirangerfjord, Norway
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  Trollfjord, Norway
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  Aurlandsfjord, Norway

Gulfs

A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass, up to more than 100 km.

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  Gulf of Bothnia, Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga
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  Gulf of Aden
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  Gulf of Mexico
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  Gulf of Venezuela

Rivers at coasts

River mouths

A river mouth is the part of a river where the river debouches into a sea or an ocean.

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  Palmiet, South Africa
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  Uggerby A, Danmark
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  Arroyo Chuy, Uruguay

Estuaries

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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  Exe estuary, UK
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  Rio Geba, Guinee-Bissau
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  Ilha de Marajó, Brazil
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  Barrow Harbour, Ireland (low tide)
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  Shadegan wetlands, road and partly dry estuaries, Abadan Island

River deltas

A river delta is a system of branches of a river before it flows into the sea or into a large lake.

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  Alaska, USA
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  Amazon Delta, Brazil
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  Indus River Delta, Pakistan
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  Volga Delta, Russia

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