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- 1Barton-on-Sea Why are defences needed?-Houses are very close to the edge.
-Soft rock
-1950-60s 1 metre a year is lost.
-Problem was made worse by the defences at Bournemouth. - 2Barton-on-sea How was it defended?Groynes – to trap beach material.
Cliff drains at the top remove the water before it can sink into the rocks of the cliff.
Cliff foot is protected by a sea wall and revetments - 3Barton-on-sea Effectiveness?It has worked but has not stopped the erosion – will be reduced for a few years
until the defences begin to weaken and they will need replacing. - 4Use of the Coast in the UkTrade and transportation-about 40% of UK manufacturing industry is also situated on or near the coast because of access to ports increasing the ease of importing and exporting.
Fishing industry; Industrial processing plants; Residential; Recreation, e.g. golf courses; Nature reserves - 5Bournemouth Why is it needed and how is it defendedResidential, transport links, business and tourism are important
Groynes
Beach replenishment - 6Bournemouth effectivenessCost benefit analysis is in favour of continual defence of this coastline.
Big impact on longshore drift, reducing material that is transported east along the coastline to Barton-on-Sea. - 7WeatheringThe breakdown and decay of rock material by water, temperature change, frost, plants and animals with no movement involved.
- 8Soft rock types and landforms: Rock fallsCliffs often have large cracks or fissures in them which are weathered and eroded over time so that without warning blocks may fall away
- 9Soft rock types and landforms: Slumped coastlinesA slump is a mass movement process where a mass of rock drops along a slipping plane. The slump moves down slope as an intact block.
- 10Soft rock types and landforms: LandslideA slide is a mass movement process where the material breaks up and travels in a slide.
- 11Soft rock types and landforms: MudslidesThis is the movement of a mass of soil which has been made from fluid from the rain.
- 12Soft Rock: Holbeck Hall, Scarborough, North YorkshireFour-star Holbeck Hall Hotel between the night of 3 June and 5 June 1993.
A landslide involving about 1 million tonnes of rock cut back the cliff by 70 m. - 13Wallasea Wetlands, EssexSea wall replaced with managed retreat
115 hectares of mudflats and salt marshes created
Earth bund was built to separate fresh water from salt water - 14Management of the Mediterranean2006 UN Blue Plan to clean up sea by 2020
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