Extreme weather event - Typhoon Haiyan
Date: November 2013 Location: Philippines
$3 Billion of damage
Killed 6,400 people
Fastest storm on record (300km/h)
Made 1.9 million people homeless in the Philippines
Storm surge from it was similar to a tsunami
Destroyed 30,000 fishing boats
Damaged or destroyed 600,000 hectares of farmland
Affected over 16 million people
Lead to riots, food shortages and diseases
High energy coastline - Green bridge of wales
What is it: An Arch Where? Wales
High energy coastline = destructive waves more erosion
Coastline is Composed of a very thick layer of Carboniferous Limestone,
Chemical erosion has dissolved the limestone.
The Whitby shore platform - wave cut platform- factors involved in the creation of an erosional landform
Located in Yorkshire
Coastline is sandstone and discordant
Old harry -caves, stacks and stumps- factors involved in the creation of an erosional landform
Located on the headland between Swanage and Studland Bay.
Made of chalk - sedimentary
Chalk is weathered by carbonic acid
Formation= soft rock eroded around hard rock - headland then cave, arch, stack and stump
Ynylas spit
Prevailing winds blows at an angle to the coast causing longshore drift which deposits sediment to build up a spit
Nile Delta - Human activity on coast - farming
Location: North Egypt
Estuary is useful for farming cause land is fertile however, the silt is easily saturated and due to being built on estuary can easily flood
Weymouth bay - Conservation of coasts
South Coast of England in Dorset
Protected by UNESCO as a heritage site due to varied geology or unique landforms
Jurassic Coast
The North Sea Coast - Low Energy Coastline
Location: Netherlands
Constructive waves more deposition, gentle slopes and sand dunes
Yucatan Peinsula - Human Activity
Location - Mexico 8% of Mexico's GDP is tourism Thousands of jobs generated Second most visited place in the world Multiplier effect One of the seven wonders of the world Second biggest barrier reef located here
Lywyth cove
Concordant coastline
Swanage bay
Discordant coastline
Holderness
Located: North East England
11km of sea wall
Eroding inland 1.8m per year
Hold the line
Torquay - management strategies
Pinning - putting large pins into cliff faces to prevent sub aerial erosion
Blackwater estuary
Salt marsh - high salinity - used as natural defence from coastal erosion because it reduces induces wave refaction
Great Barrier Reef - World heritage site
World Heritage site
Natural defence - The coral reef structure buffers shorelines against waves, storms, and floods
High vulnerability due to global warming as zooxanthellae dies from increased temperatures causing the coral to bleach which makes it less effective
Walton-on-the-naze - management
Location: North East Essex Coast
They’re cliff profiling (Making cliffs be at angles to make them less susceptible to erosion
