Case study - The Holderness coastline

Question 1

Where is the Holderness coastline and how long is it

Answer 1

It is in East Yorkshire and is 61km long

Question 2

What are some physical factors of the coastline

Answer 2

1. Mostly made out of boulder clay
2. Waves from north east produce destructive waves

Question 3

What are some landforms of erosion at the coastline

Answer 3

1. Flamborough head headland
   2 Flamborough head caves
2. Atwick sands slumped cliffs

Question 4

What are some landforms of deposition at the coastline

Answer 4

1. Flamborough head beaches
2. Spit at spurn head
3. Sand dunes at spurn head

Question 5

Why does the coastline need management

Answer 5

It has eroded 4km in the last 2000 years

Question 6

What are some social, economic and environmental challenges posed by the reduction of the coastline

Answer 6

1.Gas terminal which supplies 25% of Britains gas is at risk
2. 80,000m^2 of farmland lost
3. Loss of scientific interest sites

Question 7

What was the failed management scheme of the coast

Answer 7

11.4km of hard engineering such as…
A 4.7km sea wall at bridlington bay
Groins at spurn head

Question 8

Why did hard engineering fail

Answer 8

Reduced erosion and increased trapped sediment, starved downdraft areas of sediment, increasing erosion there, and increased flood risk of the humber estuary

Question 9

What is the better management plan for the coastline

Answer 9

a 50 year shoreline management plan, measuring the coast as a sediment cell

Question 10

What does the SMP suggest

Answer 10

1. Hold the line
2. Managed realignment
3. Do nothing

Question 11

Give an example of when the SMP failed

Answer 11

In 2013, spun head was returned to the Yorkshire trust, who chose to “do nothing” according to the SMP

it was hit by a large tidal wave and infrastructure was destroyed