Nova Scotia has a great variety of coastal landforms. Erosional features are predominant, but the landforms produced vary according to the geology and glacial history. Depositional landforms, beaches and marshes are being formed as a result of erosion and transportation of unconsolidated material. But many of these deposits are, in turn, being eroded and submerged by the rising sea level. The descriptions of coastal landforms in this Topic should be read in conjunction with the habitat descriptions.

This Document Includes:

Ancient Shorelines
Marine Limit
Buried Valleys
Submergence
Rocky Shores
Cliffs
Intertidal Wave-Cut Platforms
Beaches
Barrier Beaches and Baymouth Bars
Spits
Tombolos
Pocket Beaches
General
Dunes
Islands
Sable Island
Tidal Deltas
River Deltas
Mud Flats
Salt Marshes

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Additional Keywords:
"quarrying", erosion, island ecology, submerged forests, drumlins, sediment, sea-level.

Associated Topics:

T2 Geology
T3.3 Glaciation, Deglaciation and Sea-level Changes
T3.4 Terrestrial Glacial Deposits and Landscape Features
T6.1 Ocean Currents
T6.3 Coastal Aquatic Environments
T6.4 Estuaries
T7.1 Modifying Forces
T7.2 Coastal Environments
T8.2 Freshwater Environments
T12.7 The Coast and Resources

Associated Habitats:

H2 Coastal
H5.3 Cliff and Bank
H5.4 Talus Slope