Coastal Landforms from Erosion
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- Created on: 06-01-14 18:56
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- Coastal Landforms from Erosion
- Headlands are generally very resistant however many have cracks.
- As waves crash into headlands, they increases the sizes on the cracks - hydraulic action and corrasion.
- Repeated erosion and increased cracks causes a cave to form.
- Constant erosion causes the cave to deep and break through the headlands to form arches
- Erosion contiously wears away the rocks and causes the arch to collapse
- This causes a stack - an isolated rock that is seperate from everything else.
- The stack is eventually worn away and creates a stump which are often covered by the water at high tides.
- This causes a stack - an isolated rock that is seperate from everything else.
- Erosion contiously wears away the rocks and causes the arch to collapse
- Constant erosion causes the cave to deep and break through the headlands to form arches
- A cove is a wide,circular bay with a narrow entrance.
- They're formed when there is band of hardrock and behind that is a band of soft rock.
- If there is a weakness in the band, it form an eroded gap.
- Headlands are generally very resistant however many have cracks.
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