Which risk increases along coastlines lacking barrier islands?

💡 Explanation

Increased storm surge occurs because wave energy directly impacts the mainland, causing erosion; barrier islands dissipate wave energy via wave shoaling. Therefore less energy impacts the mainland, rather than energy absorbed further offshore.

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• Which geological feature typically forms due to the lateral shearing motion at a transform plate boundary?
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