How do shoreline processes tend to straighten an initially irregular shoreline? What will be an ideal response?


Wave refraction causes more wave energy to be expended on headlands and less on embayments so
that headlands erode and some of the sediment yielded by erosion is deposited in the embayments

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Fill in the blank with correct word.

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