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When we hear the term ‘coastal erosion’ we tend to think of extreme processes eating away significant portions of coastline within a very short time-frame. Certainly, such extreme conditions do exist but we should perhaps remember that coastlines are never completely static and stable. Where any land mass meets the sea, there is bound to be some sort of interaction with tides, winds, discharge from rivers and other natural factors which, in turn will have some sort of effect upon the coastline itself.
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Ashbourn, J. (2011). Coastal Erosion. In: Geological Landscapes of Britain. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8861-1_16
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