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Littoral?

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Coastal zone

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What are the 4 main zones between the land and sea boundary?

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Backshore
Foreshore
Nearshore
Offshore

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What are the 4 input processes operating at the coast?

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Marine- waves and tides
Atmospheric- climate change
Land- rock type
People- human activity

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What are the 3 main processes operating at the coast?

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Weathering
Erosion
Transport

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What are the 3 main outputs operating at the coast?

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Erosional landforms
Depositional landforms
Different types of coasts

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What 4 ways can coasts be classified?

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Via:
Geology- is the geology resistant to the erosive forces of the sea, wind and rain or not?

Energy- is the coast exposed to powerful waves or sheltered?

Balance- does erosion exceed deposition or vice versa? Is the coast retreating or advancing?

Sea level- does the coast have emergent or submergent features?

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What are the main features of a high energy coastline?

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Destructive waves
Storm conditions
Longer fetches

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What are the main features of a low energy coastline?

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Constructive waves, calmer, short fetches, sheltered

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Why might it be difficult to classify some coasts?

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Changes in space
Seasonality change
Local geology can produce rocky areas within coastal plain landscapes
Along fetches + destructive waves in bays

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Geological structure?

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The arrangement of rocks in layers, or folds and joints + bedding planes within them

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Lithology?

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Rock type and their general characteristics

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Bedding planes?

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Horizontal breaks in the strata, causes by gaps in time during periods of rock formation

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Dips?

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The angle at which the rock strata lie. Can be horizontal. vertical, towards the sea or inland

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Faults?

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Formed when the stress or pressure to which a rock is subjected exceeds its internal strength causing it to fracture

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Folds?

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Formed by pressure during tectonic activity, which makes rock buckle and crumble

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Joints?

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Vertical cracks caused by contraction (shrinking) as sediments dry out, or by earth movements during tectonic uplift

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Strata?

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Layers of rock

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Coastal morphology?

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Shape

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What type of coastline to caves form on?

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Concordant coastline- waves exploit weaknesses or faults

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What type of coastline to headlands and bays form?

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Discordant coastline

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What is a concordant coastline?

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Where rock is eroded at the same rate

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What is a discordant coast?

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Rock is eroded at different rates due to the different layers of softer vs harder rock

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Cliff profile?

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Height and angle of cliff face

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What does horizontal strata of a cliff produce?

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Steep cliffs

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What does strata of a cliff that dips seaward produce?

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Unstable cliffs- gravity causes mass movement ie rock fall

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What does strata of cliff that has a landward dip produce?

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Steep, stable cliffs

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Igneous rock?

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Formed from cooling of lava eg basalt + granite

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Sedimentary?

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Formed when layers of sediment deposited in lakes and sea are cemented together

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Metamorphic?

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Formed from other rocks that are chemically changed by intense pressure from surrounding rock, or by heat from near magma

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What is glacial till?

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A type of unconsolidated rock found in much of eastern england: it’s a mixture of sand clay and stones left behind by glaciers as they retreated at end of ice age

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Prosity of igneous rocks?

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Non-porous

Tightly fit together

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Permeability of igneous rocks?

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No water can be absorbed. No bedding planes of joints.

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Resistance of igneous rock?

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Very resistant to erosion and weathering

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Prosity of sedimentary rocks?

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Very porous due to rounded crystals

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Permeability of sedimentary rocks?

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Able to absorb water- permeable

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Resistance of sedimentary rocks?

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Less resistant to marine erosion and chemical weathering

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Prosity of of metamorphic rock?

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Non-porous- heat and pressure flatten rounded crystals in sedimentary rocks

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Permeability of metamorphic rock?

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Impermeable- no bedding planes or joints

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Resistance of metamorphic rock?

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Hard but some rocks are prone to mass movement

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Example of sedimentary rock

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Chalk

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Example of metamorphic rock

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Slate

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Example of Igneous rock

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Granite

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43
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What are the 4 coastal ecosystems?

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Salt marsh
Coral reef
Sand dune
Mangrove forest

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Why are salt marshes and sand dunes important?

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They stabilise soft sediment (mud and sand) which is deposited in low energy coastal environments

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Plant succession?

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Evolution of plant communities at a site over time

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Coastal plain?

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Low land

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What do sand dunes need?

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A plentiful supply of land
Large area for the sand to dry out
Onshore winds to blow sand towards the land

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Sand dunes?

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Known as psammosere where drought-tolerant or xerophytic plants can survive with little fresh water

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Porous?

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Sedimentary rocks often contain small holes called pores which can contain water or other fluids. If the holes are connected, then the rock is permeable and fluids can flow through the rock.

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Dune slack?

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Area of the dunes which is lower than the water table

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Water table?

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Level of the soil that is saturated with water

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52
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What type of dunes tend to be the highest?

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Yellow dunes

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53
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What type of grass is found on yellow dunes?

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Marram grass

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54
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What type of plant is located on grey dunes?

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Gorse

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Salt marshes?

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Are known as haloseres where salt tolerant or halophytic plants can survive in brackish (salty) conditions. Are common in the low energy environments of estuaries and sheltered bays

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Where are salt matches commonly located?

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Low energy environments of estuaries and sheltered bays

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Why is coastal vegetation important?

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Stabilises sediment in low energy coastlines allowing coasts to advance

In also provides a buffer between the land and the sea acting as long term flood and storm defence

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Wave period?

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The time interval from crest to crest in seconds. Sea waves have intervals of 1 and 20 seconds

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5 key features of constructive waves

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Strong swash 
Weak backwash 
Forward spilling breaker 
6-8 mins frequency
Deposition

ie build up beaches

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5 key features of destructive waves

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Weak swash 
Strong back wash 
Downwards plunging breaker 
15per min frequency 
Erosive
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How are beaches formed?

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By deposition of rounded sand and shingle

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What do beach profiles (gradient) have a close relationship with?

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The dominant wave type

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What are the features of a beach that have constructive waves as a dominant wave type?

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Strong swash and weak backwash pushes material up the beach. The main feature is a large berm near the high water mark

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What are the features of a beach that have destructive waves as a dominant wave type?

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When backwash is stronger than swash it removes material from the beach and creates large bars. The beach is steeper at the very back above the high water mark

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SWELL waves?

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Waves generated during storms in the middle of oceans and maintain their energy for thousands of miles.

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What is the distance of open water swell waves move travel called?

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The fetch- the longer the more destructive the wave

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What is the main form of transport at the coast?

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Long shore drift or litoral drift

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Long shore drift?

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The offshore movement of sediment along the coast

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What pulls sediments back off of a beach?

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The backwash

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70
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When is long shore drift strongest?

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When waves approach the coast at an angle of 30 degrees to the beach

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What is the sediment cell concept?

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The idea that sediments move along the coast in sediment cells.

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What do sediment cells act as?

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Closed systems with inputs, outputs and transfers

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What is the main transfer of sediment cells?

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Long shore drift

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What is the main sink of sediment cells?

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Depositional landforms

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Sediment budget?

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Amount of available sediment within a sediment cell

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Inputs?

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Sediment sources

77
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Transfers?

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Sediment transport

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Sinks?

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Sediment stores

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Negative feedback?

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Balancing out the system: as one increase the other increase

80
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Dynamic equilibrium?

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The way in which natural systems attempt to balance this way

81
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Equilibrium?

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Depositional landforms build up which are in line with the sediment available

82
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What are sediment cells always in a state of?

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Equilibrium

83
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Closed systems?

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Physical barrier between 3 processes- self contained system

84
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What are the two ways in which deposition can occur?

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Gravity settling

Flocculation

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Gravity settling?

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Energy becomes too low to move sediment. Large sediment is deposited first followed by smaller sediment (sand silt)

86
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Flocculation?

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Very small particles of sediment such as clay, which are usually suspended in water, clump together through electrical or chemical attraction and become large enough to sink

87
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Sub areal processes?

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Processes that affect coastal land above sea level

ie weathering and mass movement

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Weathering?

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Breakdown of material in situ. This means that the rock wares away without any movement

89
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Tree main types of weathering?

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Physical/mechanical
Chemical
Biological

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Mass movement?

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The movement downslope of rock, sand, clay, glacial till or soil. It is caused by gravity once slope has become unstable.

91
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When can mass movement occur?

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When waves undercut resistant rocks or when rainwater enters unconsolidated rocks and forces particles apart so that they no longer cohere (stick together)

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Four main types of mass movement?

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Rock fall
Block fall
Flow
Rotational Slumping

93
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How does weathering affect the rate of coastal erosion?

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Accelerates the rate of coastal recession because weak rocks can fall and contribute to attrition etc

94
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What does rotational slumping involve?

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A section of the cliff that remains intact as it moves down the cliff. Vegetation layer onto of slump usually

95
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What does flow involve?

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Lobe of clay and mud- cliff material tumbled to create a talus slope. Mudflow may result

96
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Where do rock fall and block fall occur?

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On a steep slope as a cliff face is weakened. which loosens blocks, and when wave erosion has created a wave cut notch so that a section of a cliff is no longer supported. Found on rocky coastline (resistant lithology)

97
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What affects the rate of physical weathering?

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Climate- hot or cold? ie precipitation is

98
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What affects the rate of chemical weathering?

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Temp and precipitation ie climate

Lithology and geological structure

99
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What affects the rate of biological weathering?

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Climate

Lithology

100
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What are the 2 main types of sea level change?

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Eustatic and Isostatic change

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What is eustatic change?

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Are the dropping of sea levels when water is locked away as ice, and it’s rising as it melts

102
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What is isostatic change?

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The process by which land rises out of the sea due to tectonic activity. It occurs when a great weight is removed from the land eg melting of ice

103
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What is an emergent coast?

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A stretch along the coast that has been exposed by the sea due to relative falls in sea levels

104
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What is a submergent coast?

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A relatively flat, horizontal or gently inclined surface of marine origin, mostly an old abrasion platform to which has been lifted via wave activity

105
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What are the two landforms that can be located on emergent coastlines?

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Raised beaches

Fossil cliffs

106
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What are the three landforms that can be located on submergent coastlines?

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Ria
Fjord
Dalmatian coast

107
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What is a raised beach?

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Originating from the sea, raised beaches are platforms formed out of coastal erosion. While sea level remains the same, land that was once at sea level is eroded. This leave the adjacent land further above sea level

108
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What is a relic/fossil cliff?

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A steep slope found at the back of a raised beach exhibiting evidence of formation through marine erosion but now above tide level

109
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What is a ria?

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A funnel shaped estuary that occurs at a river mouth and is formed by the submergence of an un-glaciated river valley

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What is a fjord?

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Is formed when glaciers retreat, after carving a typical u shaped valley, and the sea fills the resulting valley floor

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What is a dalmatian coast?

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Is formed where the geology creates valleys parallel to the coast so that when sea level rises, a series of elongated island remains offshore

112
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What is isostatic rebound or decompression?

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The melting of ice, the rising of land and the falling of sea levels

113
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What stage is the world currently in?

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An inter glacial period

114
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With the earths warming atmosphere, what does this lead to?

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Causes glaciers to melt- water enters rivers and oceans

Water warms up in seas etc which has a larger volume (thermal expansion)

Results in flooding due to rise in sea levels

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What are six factors which explain why the rates of coastal recession vary?

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Geology 
Fetch
Waves
Wind direction 
Season 
Weather systems
116
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What are three human factors which explain why the rates of coastal recession vary?

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Climate change
Groyne development
Dredging sediment

117
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Where will the most rapid rates of coastal recession occur?

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Where there are softer rocks, destructive waves, large scale mass movement, constant weathering and submergence

118
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Where do the slowest rates of coastal erosion occur?

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Where there are harder rocks, constructive waves, small scale mass movement, limited weathering and emergence

119
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What is terminal groyne syndrome?

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The upper coast is starved of material, cliffs are exposed to wave attack

120
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Why is flooding a significant risk for some coastlines?

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An increased risk and global concern because so many people have settled in lowland coast

121
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The formation of a storm surge:

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A low pressure system such as a depression or tropical cyclone develops offshore

Rising air within the low pressure system draws the sea upwards in a dome

Large storm waves develop on top of the dome due to the strong winds associated with low pressure systems

Onshore winds drive the dome of seawater towards the coastline. The increased height in sea level allows waste to surge onto the land.

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What are climate change migrants?

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Currently trying to migrate due to climate change

123
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Hard engineering?

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Involves building structures along the coast, usually at the base of a cliff. A wide variety of these types of defences are used across the uk

124
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What are the 6 main types of hard engineering?

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Sea walls 
Rip rap 
Revetments
Off shore breakwaters 
Gabions 
Groynes
125
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What are the five main types of soft engineering?

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Beach nourishment 
Cliff regrading 
Cliff drainage 
Dune stabilisation 
Managed retreat
126
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Groynes?

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Commonly wooden walls in a beach at right angles to the coast to slow down long shore frost movement.

127
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Advantages and disadvantages to groynes

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Maintain the size of a beach
Enhance the beach for recreational amenity

Expensive
Narrower beaches further down coast- terminal groyne syndrome

128
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Advantages and disadvantages to sea walls

A

Made of long lasting concrete
Can be used a promenades

Most expensive
May make beach access difficult

129
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Rip rap?

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Usually boulders that are resistant to erosion with a large surface area to break up waves

130
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Advantages and disadvantages to rip rap

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Long lasting and flexible in use

May look unsightly
Difficult to climb over creating difficulties

131
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Revetments?

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Sloped walls that are able to take the force of breaking waves thus protecting the back shore

132
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Advantages and disadvantages to revetments

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Absorb wave energy and trap sediment behind them reducing removal via backwash

Reduce access up and down beach
Wood may require constant maintenance

133
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Offshore breakwaters?

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Rock boulders to absorb wave energy and dissipate

134
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Advantages and disadvantages to offshore breakwaters

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Proved effective in protecting vulnerable areas of the coast

Very costly
Unsightly

135
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Gabions?

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Pebbles in wire which can break up waves and energy

136
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Advantages and disadvantages to gabions

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Relatively cheap

Not very strong so not suitable for high energy locations

137
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Beach nourishment?

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Replaces beach sediment that may have been eroded or transported via long shore drift

138
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Advantages and disadvantages to beach nourishment

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Natural looking
Provides amenity for recreation

Does not last long especially under winter conditions
Costly

139
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Cliff regrading?

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Lithology of cliff may be prone to collapse so engineers calculated a stable slope angle based on rock characteristics then the slop is artificially cut back to the stable angle

140
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Advantages and disadvantages to cliff regrading

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Creates a natural looking slope
Brings confidence to property owners

Expensive
Some land and property can be lost

141
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Cliff drainage?

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Drains with gravel can be inserted into a cliff to drain water out quickly to stabilise cliff

142
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Advantages and disadvantages to cliff drainage

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Looks natural once completed, engineering not visible
Reduces mass movement

Difficult to implement along the whole coastline
Only reduces mass movement- not stopped

143
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Dune stabilisation?

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Replanting grasses will help keep the dune in place

144
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Advantages and disadvantages to dune stabilisation

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Looks natural and is an effective barrier to high tide and waves

Many need to be fenced off during work which reduces amenity value

145
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Managed retreat?

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Accepted that there is little that can be done to stop high sea levels changing the coast, areas can be set aside for the sea to flood or erode ie former salt marshes

146
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Advantages and disadvantages to managed retreat

A

Allows natural processes to take place un disturbed

Doesn’t prevent land from being lost
Needs agreement from property and land owners

147
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What is an example of a type of vegetation that stabilises the coastline against erosion?

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Mangroves

148
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Hard engineering?

A

Involves building structures along the coast, usually at the base of a cliff

149
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Soft engineering?

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Where the natural environment is used to help reduce coastal erosion and river flooding.

150
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What are the 6 main types of hard engineering structures?

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Gabions
Rip-rap
Groynes 
Sea walls 
Revetments 
Offshore breakwaters
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What are the 5 main soft engineering methods?

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Beach nourishment
Cliff regrading 
Cliff drainage 
Dune stabilisation 
Managed retreat
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Gabions?

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Theses are pebbles in wire which when tied together can make a wall of great surface area to absorb wave energy.

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Offshore breakwaters?

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Artificial offshore structure protecting a harbour, anchorage, or marina basin from water waves. Breakwaters intercept longshore currents and tend to prevent beach erosion.

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Rip rap?

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Absorbing and deflecting the impact of a wave before the wave reaches the defended structure. Usually boulders.

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Revetments?

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Wooden, steel, or concrete fence-like structures that allow sea water and sediment to pass through, but the structures absorb wave energy.

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Groynes?

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Creates and maintains a wide area of beach or sediment on its updrift side. It reduces erosion on the other downdrift side. It is a physical barrier to stop sediment transport in the direction of longshore drift

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Sea wall?

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A wall or embankment erected to prevent the sea encroaching on or eroding an area of land

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What is a positive and negative of gabions?

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Relatively cheap and easy to maintain

Not very strong so not suitable for high energy coastlines

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What is a positive and negative of sea walls?

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Made of long lasting concrete

Very expensive and doesn’t fit the natural surroundings

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What is a positive and negative of groynes?

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Maintains the size of the beach

Can increase erosion down drift- beaches can be starved

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What is a positive and negative of rip rap?

A

Long lasting and flexible

May look unsightly and can contrast with the local geology

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What is a positive and negative of revetments?

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Traps beach sediment behind them so reduces removal via backwash or longshore drift

May require constant maintenance (wooden)

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What is a positive and negative of offshore breakwaters?

A

Proved effective in protecting vulnerable sections of the coast

Very expensive

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Beach nourishment?

A

Or replenishment is the artificial placement of sand on an eroded shore to maintain the amount of sand present in the foundation of the coast, and this way to compensate for natural erosion and to a greater or lesser extent protect the area against storm surge

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Cliff regrading?

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Where the gradient of the cliff is reduced so that damage of coastal erosion is reduced as the destructive waves with just go up the cliff and just back again.

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Cliff drainage?

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Steel barriers and drains put into a cliff to intercept the water movement through the cliff which causes mass movement.

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Dune stabilisation?

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Marram grass planted on sand dunes stabilises the dunes and helps to trap sand to build them up.

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Managed retreat?

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The controlled flooding of low-lying coastal areas. If an area is at high risk of erosion, managed retreat could be an option. It usually occurs where the land is of low value, for example farm land.

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What is a positive and negative of beach nourishment?

A

Uses natural sediment so beach looks natural

Does not last long, especially in winter conditions

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What is a positive and negative of cliff regrading?

A

Creates a natural looking slope

Very expensive and Some land and property may be lost if slope is changed

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What is a positive and negative of cliff drainage?

A

Looks natural once completed as engineering is generally not visible

Difficult to implement along the whole coast without disturbing cohesion rock layers

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What is a positive and negative of dune stabilisation?

A

Looks natural and is an effective barrier

Powerful storms may mean that this approach only works for a short while

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What is a positive and negative of managed retreat?

A

Allows natural processes to take place

Does not prevent land from being lost

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Amenity value?

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Are the characteristics that influence and enhance people’s appreciation of a particular area. These values are derived from the pleasantness, aesthetic coherence and cultural and recreational attributes of an area.

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Environmental impact assessment (EIA)?

A 
Are carried out to find out what effects coastal management might have: 
> Water movement and sediment flow
>Water quality
>Changes to marine ecosystems 
>Air quality, noise pollution
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What is the cause of mangrove deforestation?

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They were uprooted to make way for shrimp ponds (aquaculture)

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How effective are mangroves in terms of coastal protection?

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They can absorb wave energy and help dissipate tsunamis dues to their dense roots and branches

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How sustainable are mangroves?

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They are cost effective and act as carbon sinks- prevent the global problem that causes sea levels to rise ie positive especially in the long term

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How effective are mangroves in terms of protecting the population?

A

Areas that had mangrove forests suffered less devastation that those who had their mangroves uprooted- there were fewer casualties

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What are the 2 main reasons as to why coasts flood?

A

Isostatic rebound

Storm surges

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What 2 ways can we reduce the flooding effects?

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Prediction ie when will it flood? and prevention ie stopping flood water from reaching properties

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What are the 2 organisations that are involved in the prediction of flooding?

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1- Storm tide forecasting service

2- MET office

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What are the 2 organisations that are involved in the prevention of flooding?

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1- Environment agency

2- DEFRA

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What are the effects of rotational slumping?

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Heavy rain is absorbed by unconsolidated material making up the cliff (often glacial till, or boulder clay). The cliff face becomes heavier and eventually it separates from the material behind at a rain-lubricated slip plane.

Geography- physical (10 decks)

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