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McWay Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Big Sur, California

A coastal waterfall is a waterfall that plunges directly into the sea. Another common name for this feature is a tidefall.

Notable coastal waterfalls

Lower Düden Waterfalls, Antalya, Turkey

Coastal waterfalls include:

Waterfall Bay Falls, Hong Kong
Bowen Falls, Milford Sound, New Zealand
McWay Falls, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, California
Alamere Falls, Point Reyes National Seashore, California
Hayburn Wyke, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England^[1]
Lower Düden Waterfalls, Antalya, Turkey

See also

List of waterfalls that empty into an ocean

References

^ Newton, Grace (12 August 2019). "Hayburn Wyke: Is this Yorkshire's most beautiful secluded picnic spot?". Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.

Coastal geography
Landforms	Anchialine pool Archipelago Atoll Avulsion Ayre Barrier island Bay Bight Bodden Brackish marsh Cape Channel Cliff Coast Coastal plain Coastal waterfall Continental margin Continental shelf Coral reef Cove Dune cliff-top Estuary Firth Fjard Fjord Freshwater marsh Fundus Gat Geo Gulf Gut Hapua Headland Inlet Intertidal wetland Island Islet Isthmus Liman Lagoon Machair Mudflat Natural arch Peninsula Reef Ria Salt marsh Shoal Skerry Sound Spit Stack Strait Strand plain Submarine canyon Tidal island Tidal marsh Tide pool Tied island Tombolo Waituna Windwatt
Beaches	Beach cusps Beach evolution Beach ridge Beach wrack Beaches in estuaries and bays Beachrock Coastal morphodynamics Pocket beach Raised beach Recession Shell beach Shingle beach Storm beach Wash margin
River mouths	Debouch Mouth bar River delta mega regressive
Processes	Blowhole Cliffed coast Coastal biogeomorphology Coastal erosion Concordant coastline Current Cuspate foreland Discordant coastline Emergent coastline Feeder bluff Flat coast Graded shoreline Ingression coast Large-scale coastal behaviour Longshore drift Marine regression Marine transgression Raised shoreline Rip current Rocky shore Sea cave Sea foam Shoal peresyp Steep coast Submergent coastline Surf break Surf zone Surge channel Swash Undertow Volcanic arc Wave-cut platform Wave shoaling Wind fetch Wind wave
Management	Accretion Coastal management Integrated coastal zone management Submersion
Related	Bulkhead line Coastal engineering Grain size boulder clay cobble granule gravel pebble sand shingle silt Intertidal zone Littoral zone Physical oceanography Region of freshwater influence River plume
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Credit: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_waterfall

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