Shore

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Ocean Shores - Dune grasses 2015-06 255 (90 Sec)

A shore or shoreline is the land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean or river. Where the water is a sea, the shore is also called a "coast".

Shores are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape, as well as by erosion caused by water, such as waves. The geological makeup of rock and soil controls the type of shore which is created. Erosion of sedimentary soils can make a sandy or pebbly shore, usually called a beach.

A shore includes the intertidal zone that is alternately exposed and covered by waves and tides.

A shore will often have a lighthouse on it to help ships in the sea.

Shore Media

• Knights Point - Tasmánské moře - panoramio.jpg

  Rugged coastline of the West Coast Region of New Zealand

• 17-08-islcanus-RalfR-DSC 3282.jpg

  Southeast coast of Greenland

• 0.1. Mar Mediterrània - Serra de Tramuntana. Torrent de Pareis. (Escorca, Mallorca).jpg

  Escorca coast, Serra de Tramuntana (Balearic Islands)

• Alimini Otranto.jpg

  Coastline in Otranto, Salento, Apulia, Italy

• Somalia 16.08.2009 08-30-13.jpg

  Somalia has the longest coastline in Africa.

• Porto Covo pano April 2009-4.jpg

  Atlantic rocky coastline, showing a surf area. Porto Covo, west coast of Portugal

• Seaside in Budelli, Italy. Budelli beach is famous for the color of its sand, which is pink due to the presence of fragments of a microorganism called Miniacina miniacea.

• Cinque Terre (Italy, October 2020) - 11 (50543748322).jpg

  The Cinque Terre, along the Italian Riviera

• Accreting coast Image6.svg

  Coastal landforms. The feature shown here as a bay would, in certain (mainly southern) parts of Britain, be called a cove. That between the cuspate foreland and the tombolo is a British bay.