The Holderness Coastline
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- Created on: 20-03-16 22:58
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- The Holderness Coastline
- Causes
- Physical
- The coast is frequently subjected to powerful destructive waves (created by strong winds blowing over a long fetch) from the North Sea
- The soft boulder clay cliffs, deposited at the end of the last Ice Age are easily eroded
- The destructive power of the waves may be increasing due to slow sea level rise
- The eroded material is transported out to sea or transported by longshore drift. Therefore the beaches are thin and do little to protect the coastlin
- Human
- Input of new resistance points along the coast at Hornsea, Withernsea, Mappleton and the Gas Terminals at Easington
- The removal of sediment offshore. In 2000 3, 811, 044 tonnes was dredged legally offshore but it is thought more has been removed illegally
- Physical
- Impacts
- Social & Economic
- Industry at Easington is being threatened as the gas terminal is too close to the sea. It supplies a large amount of North Sea oil.
- Farms alongside the sea are devaluing and losing profits year on year as land falls into the sea
- SUE EARL
- Withernsea has to spend millions of pounds each year to protect its population.
- Properties along the coast lose their value, leaving owners in negative equity
- Many of the settlements rely heavily on tourism and if they are undefended their trade would diminish as facilities close down.
- There would be little or no new investment to sustain local communities
- The loss of jobs and few jobs means that young people move away from the settlements along the coast.
- Environmental
- By protecting certain areas along the coast it has made erosion worse in other places.
- Essential services (coastguard and lifeguard) will soon have to be moved as due to defences Spurn point is not receiving enough material.
- Wildlife behind Spurn Point is losing diversity as the environment cannot support many species due to the lack of sediment
- The headland at Flamborough has formed into classic examples of stacks, arches, stumps and caves.
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