CS Holderness Coast

• MAde up of 3 towns: Bridlington, Honesea and Witlensea.

  Located east of Kingston u[on Hall, northeast England
• Local Area 1

  the chalk of Flamborough provides examples of erosional features (caves, arches, stacks)

  The soft boulder clay underlying Honsea provides clear evidence of the erosion power

  Spurn Point shows evidence of longshore drift
• One of Europe's fastest eroding coastlines, averaging 2m per year
• Geology

  Holderness coast is made up of soft glacier till, material is loose and unconsolidated and therefore easily eroded by the sea
• Dredging

  Offshore drift of sand and constriction materials change the balance of the system. This removes sediment that'd normally have been deposited on the coastline and protected
• Management

  Some attempts at coastal management such as groynes can increase erosion in other parts of the coastline
• Rising Sea Level

  Scientists sugges that global waming and climate change is incerasing the seal levels, causing changes to climaic conditions
• Fetch

  The waves that reach the Holderness coastline have a lager fetch, meaning they have travelled across a large area of the North sea without interruption, making them more powerful
• Local Area 2

  In the last 70 years, 29 villiages have 'fallen into the sea.' This is because bedrock is made up of till depositioned by glaciers over 18,000 years ago