Coastal erosion
A Guide To Climate Change Impacts, On Scotland’s Historic Environment, published by Historic Environment Scotland in October 2019, defines coastal erosion as: ‘The gradual destruction of susceptible coastline rock and sediments by wave action, tidal currents and storms.’
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