Coasts cs

Cards (40)

  • 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