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Revision as of 18:16, 29 February 2020
Definition of Littoral drift:
Littoral transport is the term used for the transport of non-cohesive sediments, i.e. mainly sand, along the foreshore and the shoreface due to the action of the breaking waves and the longshore current. The littoral transport is also called the longshore transport or the littoral transport.
This is the common definition for Littoral drift, other definitions can be discussed in the article
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Related articles
Littoral drift and shoreline modelling
Human causes of coastal erosion