Examples of places

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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:

  • Dawlish 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) The reduction is wave energy due to being protected by island encourages further deposition

  • 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 10cm in 100 years)
• 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