It also has marine abrasion land forms such as sea cape, sea cliff and reef at the bottom of the sea.

A marine terrace commonly retains a shoreline angle or inner edge, the slope inflection between the marine abrasion platform and the associated paleo sea-cliff.

Care must be exercised in introducing the latter as evidence of marine abrasion, as in many parts of the coast the beach material is derived from the erosion of cliffs of incoherent material already containing rounded or partially rounded stones.