A narrow piece of land, usually with steep cliffs, that projects out from the coastline into the sea, formed where a band of resistant rock erodes more slowly than the softer rock in an adjoining bay. Headlands and the bays beside them commonly alternate along a coastline where alternating bands of hard and soft rock meet the sea at an angle.
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Bays form when weak (less resistant) rocks (such as sands and clays) are eroded, leaving bands of stronger (more resistant) rocks (such as chalk, limestone, and granite) forming a headland, or peninsula.
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