PrintA Few Notes on Other Types of Coastal Classifications
What is an emergent coast? How does an emergent coast differ from a submergent coast? What is an erosional coast and how is it different from a depositional coast?
As mentioned at the beginning of this module, there have been a number of coastal classification schemes proposed throughout the time of coastal scientific inquiry. There is not enough room in this module to discuss all of these in detail, but here are a few more as food for thought and discussions that will come later in this course.