Coastal landforms are shaped by the interacting processes of erosion, transportation, and deposition from waves and currents. These processes constantly alter the coastline over time, forming features like beaches, sand dunes, cliffs, and bluffs. Effective coastal management and protection requires understanding these natural coastal processes and how to mitigate erosion and other threats while still allowing the coast to change over time.

1. Pebble Beach, California
Huntington Beach, California
Natural Coasts

2. Sediment:
How much,how fine?
Huntington Beach and Santa
Monica Beach, California

3. Pebble Beach, California
Vegetation

4. Coasts are
ever-changing.

5. Protecting the
coast
Redondo Beach,
California

6. Protecting the
coast

7. waves currents
causes
of
What are the processes at work #3
along coasts?
managing and
#1 protecting
erosion transportation depositionHow
can coasts be
managed and protected?
alter
#2
requires
coastal landforms
How do coastal landforms form?
Coasts