Physical Landscapes In The Flashcards
What hard engineering strategies are in Swanage?
Cliff pinning, sea wall, 18 teak groynes, gabions
What soft engineering strategies are in Swanage?
Beach nourishment
What are the coastal landforms in Swanage?
Sand dunes, Stacks, stumps, bays
What coastal processes are present in swanage?
Long shore drift and wave action
What is terminal groyne syndrome?
When the groynes hold so much sediment that the last groyne becomes starved of sediment
What type of coastline is the Isle of purbeck?
Discordant bands of hard and soft rock
Over which harbour is there a spit forming up north?
Poole harbour
Where is Swanage located?
Swanage is on UK’s South coast in Dorset, and is a small section of the Jurassic coastline, a UNESCO world heritage site.
What types of rock are there near Swanage?
clay- poole harbour and studland bay
chalk- ballard point
clay- Swanage bay
limetone - Durlston head
Old Harry and his wife?
Old Harry is a stack and his wife is a stump near Ballard point The truck is resistant enough to Cave arch stack stump sequence to be formed.
The River Tees is located in?
North-East England
The River Tees becomes?
less steep as it enters its middle course and meanders develop with increased lateral erosion (through a lower gradient past Barnard Castle)
The source of the River?
Cross Fell
The height of the source
893m
The name of the waterfall?
High Force
The location of the waterfall?
is in the upper course of the River Tees close to Forest-in-Teesdale.
The height of the waterfall?
20m
There are floodplains at?
Darlington and Middlesborough
There is a sweeping meander at Sockburn (near Darlington) which may develop into a
into an ox-bow lake as the neck of the meander becomes narrower.
The River Tees flows roughly east from its source for around 128km to reach
the mouth at the North Sea at Middlesborough