Coasts

Coasts

What is the Coast?
1. What?
2. Why is it important to people?
3. What factors affect the coast?
Waves
1. Characteristics
2. Energy
3. Constructive and Destructive
4. Refraction
Coastal Processes
1. Erosion
2. Transportation
3. Deposition
4. Sub-Ariel Processes
5. Flooding
Landforms of Erosion
1. Cliffs, WCP's and WCN's
2. Headlands and Bays
  1. Balad Point - Swanage
  2. Durlston Head (Bay)
3. Caves => Stump
  1. Old Harry Rocks
4. Coves
  1. Lulworth Cove
Landforms of Deposition
1. Beaches
  1. Lulworth Cove
2. Spits
  1. Hurst Castle
3. Bars
  1. Slapton Sands
Geologically Contrasting Coastline
1. Geology, Processes, Landforms
2. Holderness vs Jurassic Coastline
Sea Level Change
1. Eustatic and Isostatic
2. Landforms of Submergence
  1. Thames Estury
  2. Milford Sound
  3. Kingsbridge Estuary
3. Landforms of Emergence
  1. Ullapool, NW Scotland
Coastal Management
1. Cost-Benefit Analysis
2. Shoreline Management Plans
  1. Holderness Coastline
3. Hard Engineering
  1. Abbot's Hall Farm, Kilnsea
4. Soft Engineering
5. Managing a retreat
  1. Holderness Coastline
6. Managing a Coastline under pressure
  1. Lulworth Cove
7. Conflict between Conservation and Human activity
  1. Lulworth Cove
Coastal Ecosystems
1. Distribution, Characteristics, Value, Threats and Management
2. Coral Reefs
  1. Aqaba, Jordan
3. Mangroves
  1. Sundarbans, Bangladesh
4. Sand Dunes
  1. Studland Bay
5. Salt Marshes
  1. Keyhaven

Resource summary

	Created by Nick Stoner over 7 years ago