Coasts 2 Features
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GCSE Coasts Lesson 2
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Coastal Erosion Features:
Stack
Cliff - Chalk Cliffs.
Cliffs with different rock layers or strata.
Blow hole or water spout.
Headland.
Stacks - The needles off the south coast.
An arch and cove - Durdle door, Dorset coast.
Wave cut platform ( The old base of the cliff).
Coastal Deposition Features
Sand Dunes.
Beach with groynes (fence like structures to prevent movement of sand).
Beach shallow slope and wide.
Beach - Sandy and quite steep.
Sand and pebble beach with groynes showing how sand has built up against one side of the groyne.
Spit - Cape off the east coast of USA.
Bar - made of shingle - Chesil Bank, Dorset.
Lagoon - off a tropical coast.
Salt Marsh.
Mud Flats