Erosional Landforms
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- Created on: 22-04-14 17:25
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- Erosional Landforms
- Wave cut notch
- Grove at the bottom of the cliff
- Caused by erosion of waves usually in low tide
- Southern Downs
- Blowholes
- A cave will be formed and grow futher inland and upwards into a tube. This tube will reach the cliff top causing water to be pushed out. The higher the energy of the pushed out waves, the more water pushed out
- A tube in a cave through which water can be pushed out
- Stair Hole, Dorset
- Wave cut platform
- Flat surface at the base of the cliff
- Cliff collapses and the waves take the sediment into the sea
- Southern Downs
- Geo
- Calder's geo, Shetland Islands
- Created by wave driven erosion of cliffs along faults and planes, usually hydraulic action
- An inlet, a gullley or deep cleft in the face of a cliff
- Headland
- The sea attacks a section of the coast with alternating bands of hard and soft rock. Bands of soft rock erode quicker that those of more resistant rock and so leaves a section of land jutting out into the sea
- A narrow piece of land that protects from a coastline into the sea
- Durlston Head, Dorset
- Coves
- Waves seek faults in the hard concordant coastline where it erodes through to the softer rock behind. The erosion happens faster in the soft rock creating a circular shape with a narrow enterance in the hard rock. The waves are then refracted in the cove helping it maintain its circular shape.
- Lulworth cove, Dorest and McWay cove, California
- A sheltered bay or coastal inlet
- Arches
- A hollow within a headland
- Green bridge, Wales and Durdle Door, Dorset
- An arch is formed from a widened cave which continues all the way through the headland
- Caves
- Widened faults in a cliff face
- Fingal's cave, Staffa, Scotland
- The faults are widened by wave erosion and become wide enough for people to go inside, creating a cave
- Stacks
- A steep and often vertical column isolated, by erosion, ffrom the headland
- Formed when weathering attacks the top of an arch, eroding it and leaving a vertical column
- Old Harry Rock, Dorset
- Stump
- Formed by the undercutting of a stack
- A shorter version of a stack
- Old Harry's Wife, Dorset
- Wave cut notch
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