Definition of salient

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salient

The term 'salient' as it applies to the area of coastlines can be defined as ' coastal formation of beach material developed by wave refraction and diffraction and longshore drift comprising of a bulge in the coastline towards an offshore island or breakwater, but not connected to it as in the case of a tombolo. '.

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