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Coastal Environments

The area where the land meets the sea.

Coastal Environments

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What are waves?

A coastal depositional landform

Constructive Waves

A coastal depositional landform

Destructive Waves

Destructive Waves

What is chemical and mechanical weathering?

Evidence of freeze thaw weathering

Mass Movement

Image of Mass Movement

What is coastal erosion?

Mass movement at Flamborough

Cliffs and wave-cut platforms

Landforms of Coastal Erosion

Stack Adam at Flamborough 2

Bays and Headlands

Wavecut platform at Flamborough

Erosion of a Headland

Selwicks Bay, Flamborough

What is Coastal Transportation?

Image of an onshore bar

What is Longshore Drift?

Image of Spurn Head Spit

What is coastal deposition?

A beach - a depositional landform

Landforms of Coastal Deposition

Image of an onshore bar

Salt Marsh

Image of Spurn Head Spit

Sand Dunes

What are the risks of coastal flooding?

Human Activities and the Coast

Durdle Door and beach

Coastal Management

Groynes trapping sand transported by longshore drift at Hornsea on the Holderness Coast.

Hard Engineering

Recurved sea wall at Scarborough

Soft Engineering

Coastal Realignment

Intertidal zone and embankment

Sandscaping at Bacton

Sediment is pumped to the beach from the dredging vessel.

Happisburgh Case Study

Happisburgh, Norfolk

Blakeley Point Case Study

Blakeney Point Case Study

The Holderness Coast

Flamborough

Geos and mass movement at Flamborough

Skipsea

Hornsea

Mappleton

Aerial image of Mappleton

Withernsea

Spurn Point

Spurn Point

Dorset Coast

Durdle Door, a coastal arch in Dorset.

Durdle Door

Durdle Door, a coastal arch in Dorset.

Old Harry Rocks

Lulworth Cove

Folding at Lulworth Cove

Chesil Beach

Chesil Beach

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