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L15 - Holderness

Here are three questions about coastal processes and landforms to get you started: 1. What type of coastline is most at risk from erosion? 2. What is the name given to the process where sediment is transported parallel to the coastline? 3. What landform is created when sediment builds up at the end of a drift alignment? Have fun with the game! Working as a team and discussing the questions will really help reinforce your learning. The competition element should make it engaging too. Good luck!

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L15 - Holderness

Here are three questions about coastal processes and landforms to get you started: 1. What type of coastline is most at risk from erosion? 2. What is the name given to the process where sediment is transported parallel to the coastline? 3. What landform is created when sediment builds up at the end of a drift alignment? Have fun with the game! Working as a team and discussing the questions will really help reinforce your learning. The competition element should make it engaging too. Good luck!

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Case Study of Coastal Management –

Holderness Coastline (UK)


Learning Objectives:
• Describe the processes taking place at Holderness
• Explain the management strategies in place
• Evaluate and assess the effectiveness of these methods and consider
alternative solutions.
Back to back drawing!
The more resistant chalk of Flamborough
provides examples of headland erosion
features such as caves, arches and stacks.

The soft boulder clay along most of


Holderness coast means that it is easy to
erode 

At Mappleton they have done


lots of things to protect the
town from erosion by the sea

Lots of material that is eroded gets carried


(transported) down the coast by longshore
drift to create this spit called Spurn Point 
What is happening at Holderness?

Suspended load at
Withernsea. Creates a
distinct muddy
Most of the Holderness coast appearance in the water
Flamborough Head: Hard, is easily eroded because it is along the Holderness
resistant rock made from made up of boulder clay – a coastline.
chalk. mixture of soil and rocks
What is happening at Holderness?
Spurn Point is created by long shore drift
and is therefore reliant on material being
moved down the coast and deposited
(dropped).
Case Study - Holderness
• It has been estimated that 2,300km of the 17,000
km of the UK coastline is, or has been defended
against the sea.
• However, despite these defences, nearly 5,000
kms, or more than a quarter of the coast line is
being eroded.
• In December 2014, the Department of
Environment, Food and Rural affairs (Defra)
reported that more than 200 homes are at risk of
being lost to coastal erosion in the next 20 years.
• It also forecasts that nearly 7,000 properties
worth more than £1 billion, in England and Wales
will be allowed to fall into the sea this century! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGpCtR9HYvE
Case Study - Holderness
The Holderness coast is a well-known stretch of coastline in eastern England. It
forms a subcell in Sediment Cell 2 and essentially comprises three distinct coastal
units.

Finished?
Your task:
1. What are the factors affecting the cliff
• Produce a detailed case study on the profiles and rates of cliff retreat along
coastal processes on the Holderness the Holderness coast?
coast. Use the information you have 2. Consider the possible impacts of sea
been provided, plus additional research, level rise on coastal process and
to produce a case study document for landforms along the Holderness coast.
your folder. How might this impact on the
sediment cell?
• During this process link back to 3. With specific reference to the coastal
knowledge and processes you have system, what are the arguments for and
studied during this topic. against protecting the Spurn Head
Coastline.
Last Man Standing
• You need to came up with fifteen questions about
our coasts topic so far (in teams of three)
• You all need to stand behind your chairs and I will
give each team a question, this may or may not be
one you have written yourselves.
• You can discuss answers, but only one person can
give the answer (take it in turns). If the answer is
incorrect, that person must sit down and another
team can steal the point.
• The last man standing will win the ultimate prize
but the winning team will also win a prize too.

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