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McWay Cove,
California,
USA
A cove is a small type of bay or
coastal inlet. They usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often inside a larger
bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets,
creeks, or recesses in a coast are often considered coves. Colloquially, the term can be used to describe a sheltered
bay.
Geomorphology describes coves as precipitously walled and rounded cirque-like openings as in a valley extending into or down a mountainside, or in a hollow or nook of a cliff or steep mountainside.
Coves, like bays, are formed by
differential erosion. Differential erosion is when softer rocks are worn away faster than the harder rocks surrounding them. These rocks further erode to form a circular bay with a narrow entrance called a cove.
An example of a cove is
Lulworth Cove on the
Jurassic Coast in
Dorset,
England. West of it a second cove,
Stair Hole, is forming.
Two examples of how coves form. The rock types are those of
Lulworth Cove. In example A a river breaks through the r...
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