Which outcome occurs when wave diffraction focuses energy on coastal headlands exhibiting fractured stacks?

💡 Explanation

Increased hydraulic weathering occurs because pressure fluctuations exploit weaknesses at small features of fractured stacks. Wave diffraction concentrates power, thus promoting crack propagation by the hydraulic action, rather than consolidation from sediment increase or biological processes, as wave force is primary.

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