As waves repeatedly hit a beach, some of the beach sediment moves down the beach with the current, in a process called ______.

The process is longshore drift: waves approach the shore at an angle, and the swash carries sediment along the beach while the backwash moves it back down the slope. Over time, this shifts sediment down the beach with the current. “Beach spreading” is not the name of this process.

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