Which morphology change in barrier islands results when wave refraction focuses energy on adjacent headlands?

💡 Explanation

Wave refraction on headlands concentrates wave energy, causing enhanced erosion; the differential erosion creates remnant sea stacks, because the refraction patterns focus energy differently there rather than along uninterrupted shorelines; therefore, erosion dominates.

• Which landform develops when solifluction lobes advance over previously deposited sediments?
• Which outcome is expedited when barrier island vegetation removal occurs?
• Which mechanism causes crustal thinning directly above a strike-slip fault zone?
• Which outcome results when differential erosion impacts stacks?
• Which effect increases downslope movement rate during solifluction given saturated active layer conditions?
• Which process rapidly alters river delta morphology when coarse alluvial sediment deposition reduces flow capacity?