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Cove

A cove is a circular or oval

Oval

An oval is any curve resembling an egg or an ellipse but may also refer to:* A sporting arena of oval shape** a cricket field** an Australian rules football field...
coast

Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
al inlet

Inlet

An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a Sound , bay , lagoon or marsh....
with a narrow entrance. Colloquially, the term can be used to describe a sheltered bay

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
.

Coves form on concordant coastline

Concordant coastline

A concordant coastline occurs where the bands of differing Rock types run parallel to the coast. The outer hard rock provides a protective barrier to erosion of the softer rocks further inland....
s, where rock bands of varying strength run parallel to the coastline.

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A cove is a circular or oval

Oval

An oval is any curve resembling an egg or an ellipse but may also refer to:* A sporting arena of oval shape** a cricket field** an Australian rules football field...
coast

Coast

Inlet

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
.

Coves form on concordant coastline

Concordant coastline

Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
or an igneous rock forms the coastline, and behind this is found a band of a weaker rock, such as clay

Clay

Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried and/or fired....
s and sand

Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.As the term is used by geologists, sand particles range in diameter from 0.0625 to 2 millimeters....
s. Wave

Wave

A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy. While a mechanical wave exists in a medium , waves of electromagnetic radiation can travel through vacuum, that is, without a medium....
s act on weakest areas of the coast, such as cracks and joints, and eventually break through the strong rock, exposing the weak rock. The weak rock is quickly eroded

Erosion

For morphological image processing operations, see Erosion 'For use of in dermatopathology, see Erosion Erosion is the removal of solids in the natural environment....
by wave action, sub-aerial processes and weathering

Weathering

Weathering is the decomposition of earth Rock , soils and their minerals through direct contact with the planet's atmosphere. Weathering occurs in situ, or "with no movement", and thus should not be confused with erosion, which involves the movement of rocks and minerals by agents such as water, ice, wind, and gravity....
(which causes slumping). A circular shape is formed because wave diffraction

Diffraction

Diffraction is normally taken to refer to various phenomena which occur when a wave encounters an obstacle. It is described as the apparent bending of waves around small obstacles and the spreading out of waves past small openings....
occurs where waves travel through the narrow entrance and then disperse in the cove, causing equal erosion at all points of the cove shoreline. Often, another band of strong rock, such as limestone

Limestone

Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. It forms under relatively deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....
forms the back of the cove. Coves are generally found on islands and in warmer climate locations.

A good example of a cove is Lulworth Cove

Lulworth Cove

Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England. The cove is one of the finest examples of such a landform in the world, and is a tourist location, with over 1 million visitors a year....
on the Jurassic Coast

Jurassic Coast

The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. The site stretches from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, Devon in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of ....
in Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a Counties of England in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester, Dorset, situated in the south of the county at ....
because just west of it a second cove, Stair Hole

Stair Hole

Stair Hole is a relatively new cove that is forming just to the west of Lulworth Cove in Dorset, southern England. In a few hundred thousand years it will be just as large and spectacular as Lulworth Cove ....
, is forming.