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Erosional Landforms

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(EL) How is a wave cut platform formed?

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Waves attack base of cliff through abrasion, corrosion, hydraulic action, attrition.

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(EL) What happens over time in a wave-cut platform

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The cliff will be undercut and a wave-cut notch is formed

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(EL) What happens after the notch in a wave cut platform

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The cliff becomes unstable and collapses

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(EL) Example of a wave-cut platform

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Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset

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(EL) What happens to less resistant clay in Headlands and Bays.

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Wave attack through Hydraulic action and attrition cause erosion to soft clay, making hard rock stick out as headlands.

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(EL) What happens after this in the middle of two headlands?

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During calm periods the sheltered bay allows deposition leading to beaches forming.

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(EL) What is a concordant coast?

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Has the same rocktype all along so less headlands and bays formed. (just soft and hard rock)

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(EL) What is our example of a concordant coast?

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Lulworth Cove

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(EL) What is a discordant coastline?

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different rocks and clay with different levels of erosion needed to erode.

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(EL) What is our example of a discordant coastline?

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Swanage Bay

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(EL) What causes Caves, Arches, Stacks and Stumps

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Processes of hydraulic action and attrition acting over time develop these landforms.

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(EL) What is our example of a coast with Caves, Arches, Stacks and Stumps

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Harry’s Rock, Dorset

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(EL) Where do Geo and Blowholes occur?

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Occur on the same coastline as caves, arches, stacks and stumps.

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(EL) What is a Geo

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An inlet that looks like a waterfall gorge that has been eroded over time.

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(EL) What is our example of Geo’s and Blowhole’s?

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Harry’s Rock, Dorset

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(EL) What is a blowhole

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A hole in the top of the rocks that has been created by up-welling waves and cutting through the top of the rock.

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Depositional Landforms

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(DL) What tides create the largest beaches?

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Spring tides create the largest beaches with lots of material carried within the swash.

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(DL) What changes the type of material on coastline?

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The strength of the tide

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(DL) What is our example of a beach

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West Wittering

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(DL) How are spits formed?

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Formed through the process of LONGSHORE DRIFT transporting the material. Form due to a change in shape of the coastline.

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(DL) How does swash move in LSD?

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At angles depending on wind strength and direction

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(DL) How does backwash move in LSD?

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Directly back out to see, due to the influence of GRAVITY.

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(DL) What is our example of a spit?
Spurn point
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(DL) What is an Offshore bar
Deposits of sand and shingle situated some distance from a coastline - Usually form below sea level. Big waves crash down and bring sediment back
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(DL) Why do Offshore bars form?
in shallow seas when waves away from shore, where steap waves hit a beach and a big backwash occurs.
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(DL) What is our example of an offshore bar
Loe bar, Cornwall
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(DL) What is a barrier beach
A lagoon surrounded inland
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(DL) How is a barrier beach formed
Created where a spit develops across a bay as there are no strong currents to stop the process.
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(DL) What is our example of a barrier beach
Slapton, Devon
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(DL) What is a Tombolo
A spit which has grown from mainland out to conjoin an OFFSHORE-BAR
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(DL) One method of Tombolo formation
Drift alligned - so in the direction of longshore drift depositing sediment.
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(DL) What is the other method of Tomolo formation
Through wave shadow if wind is coming from the offshore direction.
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(DL) What is our example of a Tombolo
Chesil beach, Weymouth
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(DL) Where do Sand dunes get taller
The further inland you go
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(DL) What is an embryo dune
The smallest dune nearest to the coast
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(DL) What makes Sand Dunes sturdy?
Marram grass and other vegetation
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(DL) What colours are sand dunes?
Yellow closer to sea, grey further out due to bacteria.
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(DL) What separates each sand dune
A slack, formed by sediment removed by wind.
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(DL) What is our example of a Sand Dune?
Studland beach
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(DL) How are salt marshes formed
They're created when mud and silt are deposited along a sheltered part of the coastline.
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(DL) What vegetation is in salt marshes
Halophytic vegetation
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(EM)
Emergent features (appear when sea level falls)
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(EM) what is a Marine platform
A staircase style cliff, with an overhang on lower layer due to hydraulic action and attrition on the rocks.
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(EM) What is our example of Marine Platforms?
Quatemary Marine, NZ
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(EM) What is a raised beach
Areas of former wave-cut platforms and their beaches which are lying above sea level
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(EM) What is our example of a Raised Beach?
Kincraig point, Scotland
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(SM)
Submergent landforms, appear when sea level rises
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(SM) What is a Ria
A drowned river valley As sea level rises they have flooded the river valley and left only high land visible
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(SM) What is our example of a Ria
Kingsbury, Devon
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(SM) What is a Fjord
A drowned glacial valley. As sea levels rise, U-shaped valleys left by glaciers are submerged.
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(SM) What are features of Fjords?
Steep tall sides, narrow body of water leading into away or into coast

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