Coastal deposition
What Coastal deposition means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The settling out of material to form features such as mudflats, significantly enhanced by flocculation in brackish water.
Occurs when wave energy decreases, allowing sediment to accumulate.
Topics that use Coastal deposition
- Coastal landscape development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Climate change
- Coastlines of emergence
- Environmental vulnerability
- Eustatic change
- Geological structure and lithology
- Geomorphological processes
- Isostatic change
- Landscape evolution over time
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