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Figure 17.12
Morphology of a rock coastline.
Plate 17.6
Cemented, shell-rich beach shingle of Ipswichian
age (c. 120 Ka BP), Gower, South Wales. The shingle lies 5-
10 m above modern sea level on a wave-cut rock platform of
the sort shown in Plates 11.2 and 12.1.
Photos: Ken Addison.
Tidal cycles
refer to the daily number of tides (Figure 17.13). A water-covered Earth with
a moon orbiting its equator would experience equal semidiurnal tides. This pattern is
