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A storm beach is a beach
Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgA beach is a geology landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of Rock , such as sand, gravel, shingle beach, pebbles, or cobble....
 affected by particularly fierce 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, usually with a very long fetch
Fetch (geography)

Fetch, often called the fetch length, is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown. It is used in geography and meteorology and is usually associated with coastal erosion....
. The resultant landform
Landform

In the earth sciences and geology sub-fields a landform or physical feature comprises a geomorphology unit, and is largely defined by its surface form and location in the landscape, as part of the terrain, and as such, is typically an element of topography....
 is often a very steep beach (up to 45°) composed of rounded cobble
Cobble

Cobble may refer to:* A particular size of rock, larger than gravel* Cobblestone, partially-rounded rocks used for road paving* Hammerstone, a prehistoric stone tool...
s, shingle
Shingle beach

A shingle beach is a beach which is armor with pebbles or small to medium sized cobbles. Typically the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes ranging from two to 200 millimeters in diameter....
 and occasionally 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....
. The stones usually have an obvious grading of pebble
Pebble

A pebble is a clastic rocks of rock with a particle size of 4 to 64 millimeters based on the Krumbein phi scale of sedimentology. It is generally considered to be larger than gravel and smaller than cobble....
s, from large to small, with the larger diameter stones typically arrayed at the highest beach elevations.

ted textbook example is the long Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach

Chesil Beach, sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England. is one of three major Shingle beach in Britain, often identified as a tombolo, although research into the geomorphology of the area has revealed that it is in fact a Shoal which has "rolled" landwards, joining the mainland with Portland Bill, giving the appearance...
 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 ....
, England
England

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A storm beach is a beach
Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgA beach is a geology landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of Rock , such as sand, gravel, shingle beach, pebbles, or cobble....
 affected by particularly fierce 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, usually with a very long fetch
Fetch (geography)

Fetch, often called the fetch length, is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown. It is used in geography and meteorology and is usually associated with coastal erosion....
. The resultant landform
Landform

In the earth sciences and geology sub-fields a landform or physical feature comprises a geomorphology unit, and is largely defined by its surface form and location in the landscape, as part of the terrain, and as such, is typically an element of topography....
 is often a very steep beach (up to 45°) composed of rounded cobble
Cobble

Cobble may refer to:* A particular size of rock, larger than gravel* Cobblestone, partially-rounded rocks used for road paving* Hammerstone, a prehistoric stone tool...
s, shingle
Shingle beach

A shingle beach is a beach which is armor with pebbles or small to medium sized cobbles. Typically the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes ranging from two to 200 millimeters in diameter....
 and occasionally 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....
. The stones usually have an obvious grading of pebble
Pebble

A pebble is a clastic rocks of rock with a particle size of 4 to 64 millimeters based on the Krumbein phi scale of sedimentology. It is generally considered to be larger than gravel and smaller than cobble....
s, from large to small, with the larger diameter stones typically arrayed at the highest beach elevations.

Examples

A noted textbook example is the long Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach

Chesil Beach, sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England. is one of three major Shingle beach in Britain, often identified as a tombolo, although research into the geomorphology of the area has revealed that it is in fact a Shoal which has "rolled" landwards, joining the mainland with Portland Bill, giving the appearance...
 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 ....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It is also a tombolo
Tombolo

A tombolo or sometimes ayre is a deposition landform in which an island is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar ....
 connecting the Isle of Portland
Isle of Portland

The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel. Portland is south of the resort of Weymouth, Dorset, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England....
 to the mainland
Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
 at Abbotsbury
Abbotsbury

Abbotsbury is a large village and civil parish in the West Dorset district of Dorset, England; situated north-west of Weymouth, Dorset. The local travel links are located from the village to Upwey railway station and to Bournemouth International Airport....
, west of the resort
Resort

A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays or vacations. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company....
 of Weymouth. Other examples appear in the Shetland
Shetland Islands

Shetland is an archipelago in Scotland, off the northeast coast. The islands lie to the northeast of Orkney, from the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east....
 and Orkney Islands
Orkney Islands

Orkney is an archipelago in northern Scotland, situated 10 miles north of the coast of Caithness. Orkney comprises over 70 islands; around 20 are inhabited....
, as well as the Scottish
Scotland

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 mainland
Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
 at Caithness
Caithness

Caithness is a registration county, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and historic Local government in Scotland of Scotland. The name was used also for the Earl of Caithness and the Caithness of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ....
.