GCSE Coasts Lesson 2

1. Coastal Erosion and Deposition by Amy Smith

2. Coastal Erosion Features:

3. Stack Erosion Feature

4. Cliff - Chalk Cliffs. Erosion Feature

5. Cliffs with different rock layers or strata. Erosion Feature

6. Blow hole or water spout. Erosion Feature

7. Headland. Erosion Feature

8. Stacks - The needles off the south coast. Erosion Feature

9. An arch and cove - Durdle door, Dorset coast. Erosion Feature

10. Wave cut platform ( The old base of the cliff). Erosion Feature

11. Coastal Deposition Features

12. Sand Dunes. Depositional Feature

13. Beach with groynes (fence like structures to prevent movement of sand). Depositional Feature

14. Beach shallow slope and wide. Depositional Feature

15. Beach - Sandy and quite steep. Deposition Feature

16. Sand and pebble beach with groynes showing how sand has built up against one side of the groyne. Depositional Feature

17. Spit - Cape off the east coast of USA. Depositional Feature

18. Bar - made of shingle - Chesil Bank, Dorset. Depositional Feature

19. Lagoon - off a tropical coast. Depositional Feature

20. Salt Marsh. Depositional Feature

21. Mud Flats Depositional Feature