In this unit you will study:

• Wave characteristics and development
• The coastal processes of erosion, transport and deposition and the factors that affect them
• Landforms of coastal erosion and coastal deposition
• Physical and human causes of sea-level change
• Landforms of emergence and submergence
• The impact of sea-level rise on human use of the coastline
• The causes of and sequence of plant succession in haloseres (salt marshes) and psammoseres (sand dunes)
• The modification of coastal ecosystems by human activity

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