Why are sandy beach shore lines often 'scalloped' in their shape?

Subject: Why are sandy beach shore lines often 'scalloped' in their shape?

Date: Sat Jun 11 00:29:07 2005
Posted by brad elliott
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: toronto State/Province: on Country: canada
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 1118467747.Es

Message:


Noticed this on the beaches of lake huron where curved indentations in shape 
of the shoreline run every few yards between "points" and also appear to be 
echoed in a larger sense by shape of the shoreline with several miles between 
points on the grander scale. We thought it might be wave action related but 
can't explain the physics of it.

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