Distinctive Landscapes: The Holderness Coast

Question 1

Geomorphic Processes

Answer 1

• Flamborough Head made from more resistant chalk
• features: caves and stacks
• south of Flamborough less resistant boulder - clay dominant
• erodes 1.8m per year - fastest in Europe
• Spurn Head is coastal spit created by continual deposition

Question 2

Management

Answer 2

soft & hard engineering
- high populated centres (Withersea & Horsea) protected by sea walls, groynes & heavy beach nourishment
- strategic realignment - letting coast erode and moving/compensating people affected
- doing nothing - letting nature take its course