the scientific study of the Earth, including the origin and history of the rocks and soils of which the Earth is made.
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the study of the shape of the earth and the processes that work on the surface of the earth.
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coastal protection methods that are designed to overcome natural processes. Structures are built to resist wave and tidal energy and sub aerial processes that cause mass movement eg sea walls.
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the highest point that the tidal waters come to.
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A strategy of coastal management to continue to hold the line of defence where it is by maintaining or enhancing the current coastal defences.
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When a parcel of air is trapped and compressed into a joint or between a wave and the cliff causing the weakening or breaking off of rock or damage to sea defences.
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Areas of the coast with endemic species of plants and animals (that are only found in that area), diversity, aesthetic and recreational value and vulnerable to human impact.
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an approach which sees the coastal zone as an interactive and dynamic complex of sub-systems. Human activities in one sub-system may adversely affect other sub-systems. For this reason, it considers that various parts of the coastal zone cannot be co
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the rise or fall of the Earth’s continental crust, often in response to the melting or accumulation of glacial ice.
