Submergent And Emergent Coastline - COASTS Flashcards

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Emergent coastlines example due to isostatic (rise/fall in land)

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Raised beaches - kings cave

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Submergent coast landforms due to eustatic (rise/fall in sea level due to volume of water )

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  • Rias - kings bridge estuary in Devon
  • Fjords- Norway
  • Dalmatian coasts - Croatia
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Isostatic change meaning

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Land moves in relative to the sea

(crustal material is forced down into the mantle changing the relative sea level.)

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Eustatic subsidence meaning

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Sea moves in relative to the land

(a rise or fall in water levels caused by a change in the volume of water.)

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Formation of fjords

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Glacial troughs ( U- shaped valleys ) are flooded due to rising sea levels.

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Formation of Dalmatian coasts

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Mountains run parallel/concordant to coast and submergence of this coastline produces long inlets with a can of parallel islands

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Formation of Rias

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A ria is a drowned river valley - a section of river valley flooded by the sea, making it much wider than would be expected based on the river flowing into it

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Formation of raised beaches

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Originally a beach or cliff created through rising sea level

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