Examples of places

Cards (21)

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  • Concordant coastline (parallel)
    • Dalmatian coast (Croatia)
    • Lulworth cove (Dorset)
  • Discordant coastline (perpendicular)
    • West cork (Ireland)
    • Swanage + Studland bay (Ireland)
  • Horizontal bedding + steep cliff profile
    • Cliffs of Mohor (West Ireland)
    • palos verdes (California)
  • Sand dunes
    • Bantham beach
    • Studland (Dorset)
  • Salt Marsh
    • Dawlish warren
    • Blakeney (Northfolk coast)
  • Hooked / curved spit:
    • Dorset spit
  • Barrier beach / bar (where a beach extends across a headland)
    • Slapton
  • Tombolo ( beach formed between beach and an island) (longshore drift convergence + refracted waves)
    • Burgh island
  • Cuspate foreland (longshore drift from different directions meet)
    • Chicago
    • Dungeness, Kent
  • Raised beaches and relic cliffs (land rising due to isostatic recovery)
    • East Prawle
    • Western Scotland, Isle Of Arren
  • Fjords (u shaped valleys where glaciers melted)
    • SW Norway
    • Milford Sound Fjords, NZ
  • Rea (when upland areas are flooded and drowns river and tributaries)
    • Kingsbridge rea
    • Dartmouth rea
  • Beach Nourishment
    • Sand banks, Dorset
  • High energy coastline, granite + igneous
    • Land’s end (Erodes by 9cm / year)
  • Rocky coastline
    • Hangman’s cliffs (North Devon )
  • Sea stacks, horizontal bedding and strata
    • Dun Briste, Ireland
  • Costal plain (flat area of land)
    • Bamburgh
  • ICZM (integrated costal zone management) and managed retreat
    • Blackwater
  • Coast drainage
    • Lyme Regis