Coasts Flashcards
inputs of energy in coastal systems
marine (waves and tides)
atmospheric (sun, rain, wind)
human (pollution, defences, settlements)
proccesses in coastal system
erosion
transportation
deposition
outputs in the coastal system
beaches
sand dunes
bars
spits
headlands and bays
cliffs
wave cut nitch
wave cut platform
caves
arch
stack
stump
sources of sediment
terrestrial (fluvial. aeolian, LSD, erosion, weathering and mass movement)
offshore
human
physical factors influencing coastal landscapes
wind
waves
tides
geology
ocean currents (globally)
flows of energy and materials (in relation to landforms)
weathering
mass movement
wave
fluvial
aeolian
transportation
deposition
landforms of erosion
bays and headland
cliff, shore platform
geo and blowhole
cave, arch, stack, stump
landforms of deposition
beach
spit
onshore bar
tombolo
salt marsh
physical factors influencing Flamborough head
geology
wave energy
sediment supply
inter-related landforms at flamborough head
river esk estuary and whitby sands
selwick bay and Flamborough head
shore platform and cliffs at flam head
example sof different landscape system changes over different time scale
cliff colapse in seconds
seasonal beach growth
millennia spit growth
physical factors effecting the nile delta
wind energy
wave energy
sediment supply
inter related landforms in nile delta
sabakahs and lagoon
lagoon and bar
sand dunes and river
bars and spits
emergent landforms
marine terrace and abandoned cliff
raised beach
landforms of submergence
fjord
shingle beach
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