Holderness Coast

• On average how quickly is the Holderness coast eroding by?

  2 metres a year.
• How many villages have been lost since Roman times on the Holderness coast?


  30
• Name the type of geology found at Flamborough Head?

  Chalk
• Name the main type of geology found along the Holderness coast?

  Boulder clay
• Name the SMP recommended for the Holderness coast for the next 50 years?

  Hold the Line
• When did the council decide to stop protecting Spurn Head from erosion?

  1995
• Which coastal town received two rock groynes costing £2 million in 1991


  Mappleton
• Sediment produced from erosion on the Holderness coast is usually washed into which Estuary?

  Humber
• Which coastal town on the Holderness coast has a sea wall, timber groynes and riprap?

  Hornsea
• Name the gas terminal which is protected by a revetment?

  Easington
• Name the process by which sediment is transported along the Holderness coast?

  Longshore drift
• Name the type of waves typical on the Holderness coast?

  Destructive
• Boulder clay is prone to which time of mass movement?

  Slumping
• Name the depositional features found at Spurn Head

  Spit, Mudflat and Saltmarsh
• The promenade caravan park south of Hornsea what which policy?

  Roll back
• Relocating caravans further inland and allowing land to be eroded is an example of which strategy.

  Managed realignment
• Name the farm just south of Mappleton at risk of falling into the sea?

  Cowden
• Why is Hornsea mere legally protected?

  SSSI
• Less populated locations often fall into this category of SMP?

  Do Nothing
• In which location on the Holderness coast would you find a wave cut platform?

  Flamborough
• Which term is used to describe the formation of headlands and bays on the Holderness coast?

  Discordant
• What percentage of the UK's gas comes from Easington gas terminal?

  25%
• Which road is only 50m from the coastline in Mappleton?


  B1242