A quick recap this morning of the main processes affecting the coastline (various processes of erosion, sub-aerial processes...), how geology affects rates of erosion, and then various erosional and depositional landforms that you need to be familiar with:
- headlands and bays
- caves, blowholes, geos, arches, stacks, stumps
- wave-cut notches and platforms
- beaches (storm beaches, berms, ridges, runnels, cusps, ripples)
- spits, bars and tombolos
Some nice sketch maps of the key landforms of the Holderness Coast and the Jurassic Coast, a discussion about whether Chesil Beach was a bar or a tombolo, and the some short-answer exam questions - don't forget that if you have time before next Wednesday, that it would be useful for you to have had a go at marking your questions.
My photos that we looked at of the Flamborough area and of the Jurassic Coast are all on Flickr - not brilliant pictures, but should serve as a bit of a reminder of the landforms and features that we talked about this morning.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Year 13 - Coastal Processes and Landforms
Labels:
coastal erosion,
coasts,
flickr,
holderness coast,
jurassic coast,
processes
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