Features on depositional coastlines
Sandy shoreline where waves affect or disturb sediment = littoral zone
Divide littoral zone into
- Foreshore = water’s edge
- Shoreface = region seaward of foreshore, where waves break
- Backshore = region landward of foreshore
- Longshore bar = a submerged, asymmetric pile of sediment over which waves will first break
- Surf zone = extends from where waves first break to foreshore
- Swash zone = edge of water, where water swashes in and backwashes out
- Beach face = dipping, relatively planar surface on which waves break
- Berm = crest of beach face