Holderness Coastline - Case Study

Question 1

What is our case study for this?

Answer 1

• Holderness coastline

Question 2

How is Coastal Erosion affecting the holderness coastline?

Answer 2

• By the soft boulder cliffs which are eroding at a rate of 3-30 feet per year.
• Over a long period of time 30 villages have disappeared into the sea
• 30 houses, which were previously parallel to the clifftop, have all disappeared

Question 3

Describe Flamborough Head

Answer 3

• It is the headland that forms the most northerly point of the Holderness Coastline
• White Chalk Cliffs surround it which lie in distinct horizontal layers

Question 4

What is our case study for Coastal Management?

Answer 4

• Mappleton, which has been subject to intense erosion at a rate of 2.0m per year
• This has resulted in the access road being only 50m from the cliff edge at its closest point

Question 5

What Coastal Management has taken place?

Answer 5

• In 1991, almost £2 million was spent on two rock groynes and a rock revetment to protect Mappleton
• Blocks of granite were imported from Norway for the sea defences

Question 6

Have the Coastal Management strategies been succesful?

Answer 6

• The two rock groynes have halted erosion as a substantial beach accumulated between the two groynes

Question 7

Describe how Coastal Erosion has effected Mappleton

Answer 7

• Further south, the rate of erosion has increased significantly, because of material which is being carried south is not being replaced as it is trapped between the groynes

Question 8

Have the cliffs been protected?

Answer 8

• No, as there is no beach to protect them.

- Even during a heap tide, the sea reaches the base of the soft cliffs and erosion occurs