Palm
Jumeirah
Saltburn
Fianborough NILE
coasts
Walton
The
Holderness Naze
, Holderness coastline :
East coast of
England ,
Yorkshire
Annual erosion rate of around 2 meters per year-up to 10m in places
↳ one of Europes coding
fastest coastlines
-
↑
1 I
CAUSES Physical Human
the coastline is made Recurved sea
Geology up walls deflects energy,
· -
· -
of a mixture of clays and erratics (loose not absorbs -
this prevents mainland
rocus) . erosion ,
however beach erosionI
-
↳
clay Sits on a seaward
sloping layer of Groynes (Mapleton) placed perpendicular
-
·
Chall :.
being eroded faster than the to coastline to trap sediment as it is moved
chalk .
by longshore drist
.
↳ Boulder eroded in 4
Clay is
being stages Sediment balance of the spurn head Spit
: ·
1 Rainwater has altered the
Saturates
Clay .. unstable been -
Spit could
easily
.
2
. Cliff be breached
is too steep :
Slumps
g-
. This the
3 reduces
angle preventing further
erosion
4 .
Large waves from the North East
the
remove debris as longshore drift
to the South
Marine processes the size of the
·
-
retch , frequency
frequency of longshore drift
↳ a
long fetch from NE winds creates
larger waves+
stronger backwash : erosion t
↳ Holderness is on the track of mid-latitude
depressions that increase the prequency
of destructive waves : Crosion +
Jumeirah
Saltburn
Fianborough NILE
coasts
Walton
The
Holderness Naze
, Holderness coastline :
East coast of
England ,
Yorkshire
Annual erosion rate of around 2 meters per year-up to 10m in places
↳ one of Europes coding
fastest coastlines
-
↑
1 I
CAUSES Physical Human
the coastline is made Recurved sea
Geology up walls deflects energy,
· -
· -
of a mixture of clays and erratics (loose not absorbs -
this prevents mainland
rocus) . erosion ,
however beach erosionI
-
↳
clay Sits on a seaward
sloping layer of Groynes (Mapleton) placed perpendicular
-
·
Chall :.
being eroded faster than the to coastline to trap sediment as it is moved
chalk .
by longshore drist
.
↳ Boulder eroded in 4
Clay is
being stages Sediment balance of the spurn head Spit
: ·
1 Rainwater has altered the
Saturates
Clay .. unstable been -
Spit could
easily
.
2
. Cliff be breached
is too steep :
Slumps
g-
. This the
3 reduces
angle preventing further
erosion
4 .
Large waves from the North East
the
remove debris as longshore drift
to the South
Marine processes the size of the
·
-
retch , frequency
frequency of longshore drift
↳ a
long fetch from NE winds creates
larger waves+
stronger backwash : erosion t
↳ Holderness is on the track of mid-latitude
depressions that increase the prequency
of destructive waves : Crosion +
