Longshore drift
GEOLOGICAL PROCESS BY WHICH SEDIMENTS MOVE ALONG A BEACH SHORE
Long-shore drift; Long shore drift; Longshore current; Longshore transport; Longshore currents; Longshore Drift; Littoral drift; Shore drift; Longshore transportation; Longshore sediment transport
Longshore drift from longshore current is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments (clay, silt, pebbles, sand, shingle) along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on the angle incoming wave direction. Oblique incoming wind squeezes water along the coast, and so generates a water current which moves parallel to the coast.