Marine-deposition coasts are those formed by accumulation of sediments by wave action. Classically, F. P. Gulliver distinguished between coasts of initial form and subsequent form. More recently, this viewpoint was used by F. P. Shepard (1948), distinguishing between primary and secondary coasts. The subsequent coasts of Gulliver (1899) and the secondary of Shepard are formed by wave action, the marine-deposition coasts being a subgroup of the secondary coasts.
Marine-deposition coasts are accompanied by the following principal elements: beach ridges , bars, spits, lagoons, limans, and tombolos. Many beaches, bars, tombolos, and forelands are similar to various beach ridges built by the waves and sometimes modified by winds. All of these forms consist of sand, gravel, shell detritus, or a mixture of them. They are interconnected, with respect to their genesis: the submarine continuation of the beach ridges is the bar; spits appear when the beach ridge is projected into the sea in...
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Araya-Vergara, J.F. (1982). Marine-deposition coasts . In: Beaches and Coastal Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30843-1_271
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