Coasts Keywords Flashcards
Beach morphology
Height, width and steepness
Beach sediment profile
Type of sediment and from where
Marine transgression
scoops up material and rolls over onto the shore and inland
Terminal moraine
glacier carries material and deposits it at the end of the U shaped valley
Glacier melts/retreats but the sediment stays in place
Relief
change in height of landscape (can be high or low)
Dyke
vertical magma intrusion
Sill
horizontal magma intrusion
Mechanical weathering
exertion of physical force to breakdown rock in situ
Environmental determinism
the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories (nature controls human actions)
Cliff profile
Its height, angle and features
Equilibrium
Two opposing processes cancel each other out until one of them is affected again
Weathering
Rock breakdown
