Coasts
- Created by: eggsbenedict123
- Created on: 11-03-14 18:31
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- Coasts
- Coastal erosion
- Corrosion
- Corrasion
- stones against cliff
- Attrition
- rocks at each other
- Hydraulic action
- Coastal weathering
- Biological weathering
- roots grow into cracks and animals burrow
- Chemical weathering
- acids corrode
- Wetting and drying
- weak rocks expand and contract in wet and dry weather
- Freeze thaw
- water in cracks freezes-expands-widens
- Biological weathering
- Mass movement
- destructive waves
- movement of material down a slope due to gravity
- Constructive waves
- either swash or backwash is stronger
- destructive waves
- either swash or backwash is stronger
- Longshore drift
- swash and backwash diagonally move material along beach
- Coastal management
- hard engineering
- beach replnishment
- Salt marsh creation
- Sand dune Regeneration
- Untitled
- Soft engineering
- sea wall
- groynes
- Rip Rap
- hard engineering
- Coastal erosion
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