Which outcome occurs when vegetation removal alters longshore currents?

💡 Explanation

Removal of coastal vegetation reduces soil cohesion, therefore wave energy reaches the shore unrestricted, increasing coastal erosion rates because the vegetation no longer dissipates wave energy. A decrease in sedimentation would occur with reduced erosion, rather than enhanced.

• Near coastal atolls, which outcome results when sustained offshore winds cause surface water displacement?
• Which outcome occurs when rapid sediment deposition exceeds capacity on a submarine canyon fan?
• Which geological outcome results when wind deflation surpasses sediment replacement?
• Which risk greatly increases after pyroclastic flows deposit material onto a watershed?
• Which outcome accelerates coastal erosion when streams carrying sediment are dammed?
• Which consequence results when pyroclastic surges encounter a saturated floodplain?