Storm beach

A Storm Beach is a beach affected by particularly fierce waves, usually with a very long fetch. The effect is most often a very steep beach (upto 45°) made out of shingle or occasionly sand. The shingle variety usually has an obvious grading of pebbles, from large to small, along the beach.

A particulary famous textbook example is the 18-mile long Chesil Beach in Dorset, England, which also happens to be a tombolo connecting the Isle of Portland to the mainland west of the resort of Weymouth.