Atmospheric Processes
- Onshore winds blowing "up" the beach, pick up sand and move it up the beach to form sand dunes.
- Rain hits the shore and erodes rocks, and carries weathered material to the shoreline to form beaches.
- Warm weather can encourage biological processes to occur more rapidly. In tropical areas some plants and animals protect stones from weathering, while other plants and animals actually eat away at the rocks.
- Temperatures that vary from below to above freezing point result in freeze-thaw weathering, while weather more than a few degrees below freezing point creates sea ice.
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