holderness coast

Question 1

Fetch

Answer 1

Atlantic fetch is 5000km
currents circulate from UK and atlantic coast into northsea
Low pressure - higher tides
Storms are intense - energy cant be dispersed
North sea bed is deep - waves are not being weakened by friction

Question 2

Longshore drift

Answer 2

cliffs are made of boulder clay, suspension, cant accumalate as beach sand
Waves flow south, terminal groyne syndrome

Question 3

Subaerial processes

Answer 3

Freeze thaw - wetting and drying of boulder clay - crumbly in dry periods
slumping - effects of water, sea removes sediment so retreats

Question 3

social impacts

Answer 3

200 homes will fall into the sea between flamsborough and spurn head

Question 3

Economic impacts

Answer 3

Number of tourism has dropped
2 million is spent on coastal management
2010-12 ERCC spent 1.2 million to help people to adapt to eroding coastline

Question 4

Environmental impacts

Answer 4

Because of groynes mappleton is starved of sediment because of terminal groyne syndrome