This paper reviews the history of conceptual and numerical modelling of hard rock coasts
(mean annual cliff erosion typically< 1 mm up to 1 cm) and its use in studying coastal …

Determining rates and modes of shore platform development and the age of associated
elements are among the greatest challenges facing rock coast researchers today. These …

The majority of shore platforms form in rocks that are characterised by layered stratigraphy
and pervasive jointing. Plucking of weathered, joint and bed bounded blocks is an important …

While wave processes on shore platforms have been recently advanced by a number of field‐
based studies, few attention has been paid to the role of bed roughness on wave dissipation …

Shore platforms control wave energy transformation which, in turn, controls energy delivery
to the cliff toe and nearshore sediment transport. Insight into shore platform erosion rates …

Understanding wave transformations over intertidal shore platforms is necessary for
managing rock coasts. Previous studies have investigated the effects of intertidal shore …

Waves are a primary erosive agent on intertidal shore platforms. In microtidal environments,
as waves cross a shore platform the energy transforms from gravity to infragravity …

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was flown over a boulder beach (area 20 000 m2) on the
southern coast of Galicia (northwestern Spain) in May 2016, continuing earlier work based …

In this paper we use a numerical model to explore the relative dominance of two main
processes in shore platform development: wave erosion; weathering due to wetting and …

The alongshore distribution of wave energy is believed to be an important control on the
spatial variability of coastal erosion. There is, however, a lack of field data quantifying the …