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Costal landscape + change
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Cards (21)
Maps
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Maps
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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