Geography - coasts notes
- Created by: abi
- Created on: 05-04-13 16:57
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- Coasts
- Processes of Transportation
- Suspension
- Solution
- Traction
- Saltation
- Longshoredrift
- Destructive waves
- High and steep
- Backwash> swash
- Drag material down the beach
- Easily erode cliffs
- Processes of Erosion
- Constructive waves
- Swash > backwash
- Low and shallow
- Gentle sloping beaches
- Erosion Landforms
- Headlands and Bays
- Cliffs
- Cave
- Arches
- Stack
- Depostional Landforms
- Beaches
- Spilts
- Bars
- Tombolo
- Coastal Management
- Soft engineering
- Beach Replenishment
- Beach reprofiling
- Hard engineering
- Sea wall
- Groynes
- Rock armour
- Hold the Line
- Advance the Line
- Managed Retreat
- Do nothiing
- Soft engineering
- Land processes
- Weathering
- Wetting/drying
- Mass movement
- Mudslides
- Landslides
- Weathering
- Protecting the coast
- Human factors
- Protect businesses and develop tourism
- Developments eg camp sites bring income
- Natural factors
- Attractions like; spit, bars
- Salt marshes attract rare wildlife
- Human factors
- Processes of Transportation
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