manage and maintain the changes to ensure sustainability. The section chosen for this investigation was the Urangan beach‚ adjacent to Churchill Street. Its main issue it faces is beach erosion. Erosion is caused by the slow or gradual wearing away of sand‚ and is especially common during storms‚ high tide and rough weather. 2.0 Methodology Primary data was gathered in the form of images taken at the beach and guest speakers (Acworth and Broadstock from FCRC) speaking on the issues‚ solutions
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Hard Engineering Seawalls How it is designed to overcome the problem Sea walls are usually built along the front of cliffs‚ often to protect settlements. A seawall is a structure constructed parallel to the coastline that shelters the shore from wave action. This structure has many different designs; it can be used to protect a cliff from wave attack and improve slope stability and it can also dissipate wave energy on sandy coasts. Challenges /Limitations /Disadvantages However‚ a seawall may not
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problem is that the buildings reduce the beaches ad many construction sites extract coastal sand for their projects. The coastal erosion that affects my hotel are both natural and anthropogenic. The slow rise of the sea level is gradual and takes time to happen‚ but this region is impacted by hurricanes and tropical storms which cause a severe costal erosion in short time. Many efforts to combat erosion‚ such as sand fill‚ are defeated by severe weather systems. As we have seen on all natural processes
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particles of Sediment‚ Sand‚ Silt and Clay * Landforms are the surface types of the earth they are categorized by Natural‚ Physical and Human activities. * They are created by the actions of various forces of nature such as wind‚ water and ice * Landform creating actions are Erosional process‚ Depositional process and Movement of the earth’s tectonic plates Types of Aeolian landforms : 1. Barchan (also spelled Barkhan) * A barchan (barkhan dune) is an arc-shaped
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shrunk into a mere isolated island. There is destruction everywhere. Road works are left unfinished‚ doors of houses are left open and there is no one. In the foggy and dim distance several buildings rise with dignity and pride‚ above the dancing sand dunes and several others are prisoners of the black smog that beseiges them. The black smog gradually begins to engulf the sick and weary Sun and the hands of its dying beams stretch out to calm down the enraging and exasperating crimson clouds. How
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html 1. Beach sand originates mainly from Beach sand originates mainly from rivers and streams which carry it directly to the ocean‚ and also comes from the gradual weathering of exposed rock formations and cliffs along the shore‚ and from the deterioration of shell‚ coral‚ and other skeletal fragments. 2. Coastal erosion is a natural process that removes sediment from shorelines. Another natural process that deposits sediment on shorelines is known as Accretion of sediments. 3. Sand is generally
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How has society responded to coastal changes initiated by sand transportation‚ and have these responses been wise environmentally and economically? What do you do when mid-latitude cyclones get larger‚ strong frontal winds are more frequent‚ and waves and currents get stronger? How can we control high waves and storm surges that drive more sediment transport‚ permanently changing the coast? Coastal dunes‚ of all shapes and sizes‚ are are dense enough to prevent rapid and significant changes
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Hard engineering refers to the construction of physical structures to defend against erosive power of waves To protect a coast from erosion‚ people have built seawalls in front of a cliff or along the coast. A seawall is usually made of concrete. It acts as a buffer and absorbs energy of breaking waves especially during storms where the waves are strong‚ thus protecting the coast. A seawall shields and protects the coast from the direct impact of the incoming waves‚ thus reducing erosion. However
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constructive. * The process by which the direction of a wave is changed when it moves in to shallower water. * The energy of water impacting on a cracks and joint. Air is compressed into the space‚ leading to erosion. * When particles of sand or rock further abrade the rock surface. * When the waves wear away at the base of a cliff‚ often forming a notch. * The wearing a way of rocks after they have been removed from the cliff face. * The distance a wave travels without interruption
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The strength of the wind How far the wave has travelled (called the fetch) Longshore drift is the result of the movement of water along the beach as a result of the angle broken waves ‘hit’ the coast. As the water moves down the beach it carries sand and other materials. Another name for longshore drift is a current. A wave develops due to the action of wind.
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