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326 PROCESS AND FORM

Plate 13.6 Sea arch on Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.
(Photograph by Nick Scarle)

Plate 13.7 Sea stack on Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.
(Photograph by Nick Scarle)

COASTAL DEPOSITIONAL
LANDFORMS wave processes affect coastal sediments. In composition,
they consist of a range of organic and inorganic parti-
cles, mostly sands or shingle or pebbles. Pebble beaches
Beaches
are more common at middle and high latitudes, where
Beaches are the most significant accumulations of pebbles are supplied by coarse glacial and periglacial
sediments along coasts. They form in the zone where debris. Sand beaches are prevalent along tropical coasts,