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Coasts case studies - Coggle Diagram
Coasts case studies
Coast types
Rocky coastline
Cornwall, hard rock dominant.
Lands End, UK
Concordant + Haff coastline
Baltic Sea - Long spits of sand form lagoons behind
e.g. Coronian lagoon
Concordant + Dalmatian coastline
Dalmatian coast, Croatia
Formed by tectonic faulting and rising sea levels since the end of the last ice age
Discordant Coastline + Rias
West Cork, Ireland
Concordant coast
Jurassic coast
sedimentary chalk headland with seaward dip
Jurassic coast
rock type
hard
Cornwall
Lands End, UK
soft
St Oswalds Bay, Dorset
Holderness coast
processes at work
Faulting and jointing
Jurassic coast
Vegetation plays a role in strengthening the coast
Eden estuary of Fife
Long shore drift
South coast of England
Mass movements
topples
Aldborough, Holderness
rotational slumping
North yorkshire
Conflict / management
Flood defences
Thames barrier - built 1984
soft engineering
Maldives - more appealing to tourists
Hard engineering
Mappleton (Holderness) - rock armour and groynes to protect the town.
Conflict of interest
Holderness
landforms
Natural arch
jurassic coast
Spit
Spurn Head (Holderness coastline)
Cuspate foreland
Dungeness (Kent)
coastal events
flooding / storm surge events
North sea (2013)
Philipines
Impacted by climate change
Bangladesh
Maldives
Coastal erosion attempeted to be mitigated by soft engineering
The Maldives
