Part one of term paper
Rocky shores are found all over the world, yet they are not the same. For example, on the Pacific Northwest coast you will find steep, rocky cliffs. In Maine you will find rocky coasts, too; however, they slope gently to the sea. They generally occur where there are steep coasts and where there is a lack of large sediment deposits. There ...

Part two of term paper
... scraped away the sediment from the continental shelf and exposed the bare rock below. The coasts sank due to the tremendous weight of the ice and when the ice melted the coasts had rebounded or slowly rose. The bare rock had become the new coastline. Other shores had developed from geological events but in a different way. The rocky coast of Hawaii was formed by successive flows of lava into the sea which have not had time to collect sediment. Life on the rocky shores is separated into d ...