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    1.2.

    1b How do processes work together to create landform features


    at different scales in coastal landscapes in Wales?

    Arches to stacks
    Where a coast
    Erosion of cracks and faults in a is made up of hard headland
    headland can, in time, alternating
    Waves
    lead to the formation of a cave. bands of hard and soft bay
    Continued erosion soft rocks, bays form
    along lines of weakness, such where erosion and
    as bedding planes, can weathering happen hard SEA headland SEA
    break through to the other side faster on weaker
    of the headland, forming rocks, leaving behind soft Waves
    an arch. Weathering of the roof headlands made of
    hard rocks. bay
    of the arch could lead
    to a rockfall event and its hard headland

    collapse leaving behind a stack


    of rock.

    How and why do coastal landforms change over time?


    Erosion Weathering Mass Movement

    Abrasion is when rocks carried in waves Freeze-thaw is when water gets into Rockfalls – the movement of a mass of
    smash into cliffs, knocking bits off. cracks in the top of the cliff in the day and rocks off a cliff.
    Attrition is when rocks crash together as freezes at night. As this continues rocks Landslide – a collapse of a mass of earth
    they move along in the sea. break off and fall onto the beach. or rock from a cliff.
    Hydraulic Action is when air is forced into Biological weathering is when the roots of
    cracks in a cliff by waves, forcing them to
    expand. plants growing in the cliff dislodge rocks
    Solution seawater dissolves minerals in that then fall from the cliff.
    the cliff.

    A spit is a distinctive coastal landform that shows the link between sediment supply, transportation and deposition. Erosion, weathering and mass movement processes combine to cause
    a cliff to retreat backwards, leaving behind a wave-cut platform that
    contains rock pools.
    Where the supply of
    sediment is high, the
    beach will build out and
    deposit sediment into the
    sea beyond a headland
    Erosion, weathering
    and form a spit, e.g.
    and mass movement
    Barmouth spit. The water
    of a cliff provide the Most erosion
    pressure from rivers stop
    beach with material occurs between
    spits from forming across
    that is moved along by LSD is the zig zag movement of high and low tide,
    river mouths, causing
    longshore drift. swash and backwash along a beach. forming a
    them to curve.
    wave-cut notch.

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