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Coastal landscapes Flashcards

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Constructive wave

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Breaking waves push large amounts of sand and pebbles up the beach ‘constructing’ it

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Destructive wave

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Breaking waves plunge down onto beach with little forward swash

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The types of mass movement

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  • rockfall
  • landslides
  • mudflow
  • rotational slip
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Rockfall

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Rocks break away often to freeze thaw

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Landslides

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Blocks of rocks slide downhill

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Mudflow

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Saturated soil and weak rock flows down hill

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Rotational slip

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Slump of saturated soil and weak rock along a curved surface

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When the wave reaches the beach

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It breaks and collapses on it. The water rushes up the beaches as wash and runs back down as backwash

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Waves form by

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  • wind blowing over the sea
  • friction with the surface and water causes ripples that turn into waves
  • tsunamis form when earthquakes or volcanos Shake the sea bed
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Biological weathering

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Caused by the actions of the flora and farina

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Example of biological weathering

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Plant roots grow in cracks in rocks, and animals burrow into weak rocks

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Chemical weathering

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Caused by chemical changes

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Example of chemical weathering

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Carbonation-rain water absorbs co2 from air becoming slightly acidic. Contact with alkaline water causes rock to slowly dissolve

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Mechanical weathering

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The disintegration of rocks

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Examples of mechanical weathering

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Freeze thaw - water collects in rocks, it freezes expands and the it melts again and sinks deeper into the rock

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The types of sediment transportation

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  • solution
  • suspension
  • traction
  • saltation
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Solution

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Dissolved chemicals often derived from limestone or chalk

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Suspension

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Particles carried within the water

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Traction

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Large pebbles rolled along the seabed

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Saltation

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A ‘hopping’ or ‘bouncing’ motion of particles too heavy to be suspended

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Influences of coastal landforms

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Rock type-some rocks are more tough and resistance than others
Geological structure- the way rocks have been folded or tilted

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Deposition happens when

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Water slows down and waves lose their energy

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Beaches are formed

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Of sediment deposited in bays

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Headland are formed by

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Slow eroding tough resistance rock

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Bays are formed by

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Weaker rock eroding more easily

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Managed retreat

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Controlled retreat of the coast

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Erosion means

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Wearing away the landscape

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Types of coastal erosion

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  • solution
  • corrosion
  • abrasion
  • attrition
  • hydraulic power
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Solution

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Dissolving of soluble chemicals in rock

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Corrosion

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Rick fragment picked up by the sea are thrown at the cliff. They scrape and wear away the rock

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Abrasion

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The ‘sand papering’ effect of pebbles grinding over a rocky platform

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Attrition

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Rock fragments carried by the sea Knock against each other becoming smaller/rounder

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Hydraulic power

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The power of waves as they hit a cliff. Trapped air is forced into cracks of the rocks eventually breaking it

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Cave

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Abrasion and hydraulic action widen the joint it fault

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Arch

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The formation of erosion creating two back to back caves breaking through

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Stack

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Arch of enlarged by erosion leaving an isolated stack

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Stump

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A stack is eroded and collapsed

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Wave cut notch

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When a wave breaks against a cliff erosion close to the high tide line will form a wave cut notch

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Wave cut platform

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After many wave cut notch formations and cliff collapse cliff retreats it leaves behind a gently sloping platform

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Hard engineering

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Uses artificial structures to control natural processes

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Hard engineering that help manage coasts

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  • sea wall~Concrete or rock barrier at the foot of the cliff or top top of beach
  • groynes~rock or timber structure built at right angles to the beach
  • rock armour~piles of large boulders at the foot of the cliff
  • gabions~Rick filled wire cages that support a cliff and provide a buffer against the sea
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Beaches are

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Deposits of sand and shingle

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Sand dunes are

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Formed by sand blown inland up the beach

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A spit is

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A long finger of sand or shingle jutting out into the sea

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Bars form

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When long shore drift causes spits to grow across a bay

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Soft engineering

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Involves methods that work with natural processes

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Soft engineering for managing coasts

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  • Beach nourishment~sand or shingle is dragged of shore and transported to coast by barge
  • dune regeneration~marram grass is planted to stabilise dunes and help them develop which makes then effective buffers to the sea

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