Monaco is mostly all coastal landscape. Most of all the forms and processes found here are mostly driven by its location bordering the sea.
Just in this one picture we can see several different forms and processes.
We can see the waives, which are formed out in deep water in circular motion. The close they are to the coast the higher the crest of the wave will be. Once it starts hitting the sea floor and the wavelength is half the depth of the wave, that is when water actually starts moving towards the cost and the wave of translation is created.
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| Beaches in Moaco, created by deposition. http://www.avsim.com/pages/0607/MonacoX/MonacoX.htm |
The beaches in Monaco are depositional landforms created by waves bringing in smaller sand particles and depositing them. Some are deposited in patterns due to long shore drifts.
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| Sand is deposited on the right side of the bars as the long shore drift moves down the coast line. http://www.avsim.com/pages/0607/MonacoX/MonacoX.htm |
Other land forms are created by coastal erosion instead. some are caused by waives and some are created by weathering created by the salt water of the sea. Notches are cut into bottom of rock faces by persistent waves over a long time.
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| castle built into cliff in Monaco,cliff"s base is being notched by waives http://www.flickr.com/photos/goedel/33899149/ |
