holderness ๐คฌ Flashcards
how long
61km
from where to where
flamborough head to spurn head
rate of erosion at great cowden
10m/yr
coastal processes
erosion
mass movement
transportation
deposition
landforms at spurn head
spit
estuary and mudflat behind
landforms at flamborough head
headland (chalk>boulder clay)
wave cut platform
fraction of coastline with hard engineering
1/6+
mappleton sea defenses
two rock groynes
500m long reventment
total cost ยฃ2mill
issues with mappleton sea defences
as the groynes trap material great cowden (south of mappleton) was starved of sediment so the rate of erosion here increased rapidly
10m/yr
property prices fall
livestock fell into sea
smp
managed realignment in some areas - businesses relocate - need for compensation
easington gas terminal protected by rock reventments