The __________ people are the earliest known inhabitants of Africa's Mediterranean coast.
Coastal Deposition Landforms: Features and Formation. Material that is transported by the waves along a coastline is eventually deposited forming distinctive deposition features. There are four main deposition features that you need to learn the formation of. These are: 1. Beaches. 2. Spits. 3. Bars. 4. Tombolos. Beaches Beaches are the main feature of deposition found at the coast, these consist of all the material (sand, shingle etc.) that has built up between the high and low tide mark.
As a consequence, large wide beaches struggle to establish. However, these beaches are associated with a range of depositional features that develop along the coast, including spits. The diagram to the right shows the process of longshore drift and longshore currents. Prevailing wind brings waves in on an angle,w hich is slightly reduced in the nearshore by wave refraction.