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What is the most likely impact of sea wave refraction towards a shoreline?

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What is the most likely impact of sea wave refraction towards a shoreline?

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Wave refraction occurs when a relatively straight wave front hits an indented seashore, causing the wave front to flex into the inlets and to bend around the headlands, thereby roughly mimicking the curves of the coastline. Wave refraction results in more intense wave action on projecting areas where the water becomes shallow over shorter distances and thereby produces larger breakers.It is against headlands that waves expend more energy than against straight stretches of shore, and this means that the forces of wave erosion are concentrated along headlands. So I would say B.

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