Eli5 Slanted rocks

Question

At a lot of places I’ve visited where the sea meets the land and I’m sure inland as well quite often there’s a wall of rock that’s on a diagonal. I would guess this is where plates have moved ages ago and forced some of rock to be at an angle, is this what happened?
Thanks

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

Yes, it’s pretty likely that’s exactly what happened. It’s also possible a big chunk of formerly horizontal rock broke, slid and rotated as the result of wave erosion, but tectonic movement is generally what causes it.