Beach evolution
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Beach evolution is a natural process occurring along shorelines where sea, lake, or river water erodes the land. Beaches form as sand accumulates over centuries through recurrent processes that erode
Old sea level mark in the Bay of Pozzuoli before uplift in 1982–1984.
New quay at the Bay of Pozzuoli
St. Mark's Square, Venice, during flooding
Sea wall in the Netherlands that does allow the tide and organisms through, but brakes wave energy.
Longshore drift
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Longshore drift from longshore current is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on the angle of incoming wav
Beach evolution
…the harbor before the uplift while the one on the bottom right shows the new quay. The gradual evolution of beaches often comes from the interaction of longshore drift, a wave-driven process by which sediments move along a beach shore, and other sources of erosion or accretion, such as nearby rivers. Deltas are nourished…
Provincetown Spit, at the northern end of Cape Cod, was formed by longshore drift after the end of the last Ice age.
Kaitorete Spit in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's southern island.
Arcachon Bay in Southwest France.
Timber groyne from Swanage Bay, UK