Geography all case studies(wip)
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- Georgaphy GCSE: case studies
- Coastal: Holderness
- Location
- North east coast
- very weak clay deposited during ice age by glaciers
- Holbeck landslide in 1993
- south of Scarborough
- destroyed four star Holbeck hall hotel
- pulled cliff back 70m
- 3 - 5 of june - 55m by the 4th when guests were evacuated
- Impacts
- roads lead to villages no longer there
- metres if land lost each year
- Houses and jobs lost, buildings being unable to be sold as they are too unsafe
- 30 feet of farmland a year lost further down the cliff
- gas station 12m from cliff - gas getting into sea and homes without gas
- insurance wont pay out so no money and no home
- risk to livestock
- Coastal management
- 1991: two rock groynes and some rock armour cost £2 million
- trapped beach sediment that would have disappeared due to long shore drift
- did save the main road B1482
- caused erosion rates to increase significantly further south
- Location
- Coastal: Holderness
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