coasts eq2 examples Flashcards
wave-cut platform example
Flamborough head, Yorkshire
- a resistant chalk headland
cave,arches, stack and stumps example
Old Harry Rocks, Isle of Purbeck in Dorset
-chalk formations
cliff example
White Cliffs of Dover
-chalk
headlands and bay example
Swanage Bay, Dorset
-between ballard point and dulston dead
The soft rock is made of clay and sands, and the hard rock is chalk and limestone.
wave cut notch and platform (2nd example)
Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset
bayhead beach example
Lulworth Cove, Dorset
Spit example
Spurn Head, Holderness Coast
or
Durlston Head, Dorset
Tombolo example
St Ninian’s tombolo, Shetland
Bar/ barrier beach example
Chesil Beach, Dorset
Recurved/ hooked spit
Hurst Castle Spit, Hampshire
Cupsate Foreland
Dungeness, Kent
Sediment cell example
sediment cell 2
-holderness coast
source: Flamborough Head
transfer: Holderness Coast
Sink: Spurn Head
tallus scree slope example
(caused by blockfalls)
Twistleton Scar in the Yorkshire Dales.
rotational scar/ slumping example
Christchurch Bay, in Barton-on-Sea, near Lymington in Hampshire
terraced cliff profile example
Naish Farm, Christchurch Bay