Types of Marine Depositional Landforms

Marine Depositional Landforms

1. Beach

# This is the temporary covering of rock debris on or along a wave-cut platform.

2. Bar

# Currents and tidal currents deposit rock debris and sand along the coast at a distance from the shoreline.

# The resultant landforms which remain submerged are called bars.

# The enclosed water body so created is called a Barrier.

3. Barrier

# It is the overwater counterpart of a bar.

4. Spit and Hook

# A spit is a projected deposition joined at one end to the headland, with the other end free in the sea.

# The mode of formation is similar to a bar or barrier.

# A shorter spit with one end curved towards the land is called a Tombolos.

5. Tombolos

# Sometimes, islands are connected to each other by a bar called tombolo.