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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM |
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COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side) , the part
meets the sea in a line of more or less regular
Coast
Coast
hinterland . If the coast-line runs parallel to a mountain
regular
long exposed to wave action. A recently depressed coast will show the irregularities that were impressed upon the surface before submergence. Wave erosion and the action of marine currents are the chief
rock
change as it gradually recedes, for the hard rock
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