Emergent CoastsEmergent coasts are a result of forces acting to
raise the land s Figure 21.20 Wave-cut
terraces on San Clemente Island, California.
Raised shorelines and erosional features like wave cut terraces are also found along tectonic coasts where endogenic forces have uplifted the surface. Such coasts are common along the mountain and island arcs of the Pacific Ocean.
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urface or drop sea level. The incredible weight of
massive ice sheets during the the Pleistocene depressed the
continental surfaces beneath them. The continents began to rebound
as the ice melted and released the overlying pressure. The rising
surface lifted the shoreline above sea level forming glacial
uplift coasts along continental margins.