Coastal Processes
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- Created by: lucy
- Created on: 03-01-13 15:49
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- Coastal Processes
- Waves
- Constructive
- Low frequency - 6-8 per min
- Weak back wash, strong swash
- Destructive
- High frequency - 10-14 per min
- Strong Back swash (rip current), weak swash
- wave refraction
- Constructive
- The shape of the coast is influenced by
- Land
- Height of land
- Geology
- People
- Sea
- tide
- Waves
- Sea levels
- Erosion of land
- Atmosphere
- Tide
- Waves
- Pollution
- Weather and climate
- Land
- Systems
- Outputs
- Processes
- Sediment cells
- Inputs
- Marine erosin
- attrition
- abrasion
- solution
- Hydraulic action
- Subariel weathering
- Biological
- Chemical
- Physical
- Mass movement
- Run off from land
- Longshore drift
- Landforms of erosion
- Headlands and bays
- Wave cut platforms
- Cave, blow hole, arch, stack - old harry
- CASE STUDY FOR COASTAL EROSION IS HOLDERNESS!!
- Landforms of deposition
- Spits
- Bars
- Tombolos
- Sand dunes
- Salt marsh
- Beach
- Ridge
- Cusp
- Runnel
- Berm
- Sea level change
- Emergent features
- raised beaches
- Fossil cliff lines
- Submergent features
- Fjords
- Rias
- Isostatic change
- Eustatic change
- Emergent features
- Coastal flooding
- Towyn floods wales 1990
- Blackwater Esturay
- Coastal managment
- Hard Engineering
- Sea wall
- Revetements
- Groynes
- Gabions
- Rip rap
- CASE STUDY FOR HARD ENGINEERING IS HOLDERNESS
- Soft engineering
- Hold the line
- Managed retreat
- offshore breakwater
- Do nothing
- Advance the line
- Beach nourishment
- Plant vegetation
- Hard Engineering
- Waves
- Salt marsh
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