Erosional landforms

Question 1

Headlands

Answer 1

Formed from differential erosion of a discordant coastline

Question 2

Headlands example

Answer 2

Dorset coast: Peveril Point, interbedded limestone and mudstone

Question 3

Wave cut platforms

Answer 3

Waves undercut a notch between high and low tide until the overhang collapses to scree, this repeats creating a gradiented wave cut platform

Question 4

Wave cut platform example

Answer 4

Dorset coast: Kimmeridge Bay, mudstone

Question 5

Stump

Answer 5

Crack in a weakness, a cave forms on both sides due to wave refraction, combine to an arch, collapses to a stack, collapses/eroded to a stump

Question 6

Stump example

Answer 6

Dorset coast: Old Harry and Wife in Ballard’s Head, chalk

Question 7

Geo

Answer 7

Steep-sided narrow inlet in a cliff (may have a sea cave in front that could collapse and cause depressions in the cliff face) from faults

Question 8

Geo example

Answer 8

Orkney Islands: Geo of Ork