Editing Cavitation (section)

===Coastal erosion===
In the last half-decade,{{when|date=December 2019}} [[coastal erosion]] in the form of inertial cavitation has been generally accepted.<ref>{{cite book |title=Environmental Geomorphology |url=https://archive.org/details/environmentalgeo00pani |url-access=limited |last=Panizza |first=Mario  |year=1996 |publisher=Elsevier |location=Amsterdam; New York |isbn=978-0-444-89830-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/environmentalgeo00pani/page/n123 112]–115 }}</ref> Bubbles in an incoming wave are forced into cracks in the cliff being eroded. Varying pressure decompresses some vapor pockets which subsequently implode. The resulting pressure peaks can blast apart fractions of the rock.