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COASTAL PROCESSES

Wave Tides

Wave components Wave fetch & refraction


Sea- level change

weathering Erosion

Cliffs/platforms Sediment transport Beaches

Sediment cells
COASTAL LANDFORMS

Erosional Changing sea Depositional


landforms levels landforms

Beaches Dunes Salt marshes Deltas


Case study
Cliffs Platform
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Case study

Case study

Differential erosion

Human impacts
MANAGING BRITAIN’S COASTS

COASTAL PROTECTION

Hard engineering Soft engineering

Decision-making factors Filling & Stable bays


Cliff foot Cliff fall nourishment

Technical Economic Environmental

Changing sea levels

Integrated planning –
shoreline management plans

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