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Examples of more resistant rock that creates headland
Limestone and chalk
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Examples of less resistant rock that creates bays
Clay and sand
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What is sliding?
Loosened rock/soil suddenly slides down a slope (blocks of material can slide at once
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What is slumping?
Loose wet rocks slump down pulled by gravity along curved slip planes (clay coasts)
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Rock fall
fragments of rock break off a cliff face
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Rotational slump
Saturated soil slips down a slope
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Landslide
Rock and soil slide down hill
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Mudflow
Saturated soil flows downhill
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Where are beaches creates?
constructive coastlines
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Two common factors of a spit
extend from one mainland at the end and vunerable to erosion
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Card 2

Front

Examples of less resistant rock that creates bays

Back

Clay and sand

Card 3

Front

What is sliding?

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

What is slumping?

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Rock fall

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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