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Coasts
East Anglica
Coast
Atlantic
coast
Lulworth
cove
Dalmatia
Coast
Swanage
bay
Studland
bay
Holderness
Happisborough
West wittering
Salt marsh
Spurn
head
Swanage
bay
Flamborough
head
Strata Chesil
beach
River
Teme
Burton Bradstock
Landslide
Alborough
Sford
Ria
Raised
beach
Marine
terraces
Maldives
UK
Bangladesh
East
Anglica Coast
Shortfetch
North
folk
Atlantic
coast
Glaciation
Storms
Destructive
Metamorphic
Lulworth
cove
Limestone
Clay
500,000
visitors yearly
Dorset
Dalmatia
Coast
Adriatic
Sea
1244
Islands
Swanage bay
Durleston
head and
Ballard
point-chalk
limestone
Studland
bay
Clays
Sand
Discordant
Holderness
Boulder
Clay
Erosion of
Hornsea
and
Mappleton
Happisborough
2008-2013
Whole path destroyed
Soft boulder
Clay
No
SMDs
West
wittering
1,000
meters long
Car
park at
hinge
Sand
dune
Marsh
Thriving
ecosystems
Salt
marsh
Essex
Reclaimed due to
high
flooding
So
hectares
Spurn
head
Drift-aligned
Chalk
and
clay
from
Hornsea
Swanage
bay
Swash-aligned
Day
eroded
Vertical
wave
Flamborough
head
Arch
Chalk
Green
tops (
weathering
)
Chesil beach
18 mile barrier beach
Tombolo is called Portland
Dorset
Freeze thaw
Pennies Yorkshire
Freeze changes
annually
Salt
Weathering
Arctic
Thermal
crystal
expansion
River Teme
Biological weathering
Burton Bradstock
Blockfall
Bedding planes
2005
Landslide
Jurassic
Coastline (
Dorset
)
One third
crack
inland
Alborough
South of
Mappleton
No
intervention
2019-2020
had a
1
meter Slump
Sford
Norway
Longest is
200km
long
Ria
Fowey
estuary,
Cornwall
41,800
acres catchment
Raised
beach
Arran Scotland
100-300
meters wide
Marine
terraces
Santa Cruz
5.75-8
meters above sea level
Ice age was
18,000
years ago,
30%
of world covered
Maldives
5
meters above sea level
25
% of economy is
tourism
UK
:
Suffolk
underwater by
2050
(farmland)
UK
storm (
2013)
17
died
275
% increase in water in Surrey
Storm surge
Bangladesh
Storm surge (
2007
)
6
meters high
Groynes
East
wittering
Less
sediment at
West
wittering (
spit
)
Riprap
Hornsea
0
meters has
eroded
since
Seawall
Scarborough
40
properties protected
14
meters tall
160
meters long
Marsh
creation
Somerset,
2014
habitat scheme
Cliff
regrading
Dorset
,
2.5
million stabilisation project
Beach nourishment
Lincolnshire
,
7
million scheme
400,000
meters of sand pumped
Mappleton
2
million
spent on
groynes
in 1991
Hornsea
Groynes
increased erosion by
3
meters so riprap placed
Odisha
in eastern india
2012,
500
meters of erosion
Water too
saline
to drink
Blow hole
- A hole in the cliff through which seawater is forced. At
stair
hole
next to
lulworth
cove
,
limestone strata