Wave Action in Shore Platform Formation
- 1 February 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 88 (1), 41-49
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800068904
Abstract
Erosion of headlands along the southern coast of Victoria results chiefly from the attack of storm waves, and is concentrated above a defined level, marked by certain level shore platforms, whose surfaces are at about high tide level. These platforms are initiated and maintained by storm wave erosion. Their surfaces undergo planation and lowering, chiefly by the scouring action of waves of translation, but increasingly by water-layer weathering as the platforms age and widen.Keywords
This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Shore PlatformsGeological Magazine, 1949