Using examples, explain the characteristics of high-energy coastlines.(6)
A high-energy coastline is when the rate of erosion is higher than the rate of deposition and
they have very powerful waves. Stretches of the UK’s Atlantic-facing coastline where the
waves are powerful for most of the year have high-energy coastlines, for example, Cornwall.
Cornwall’s coastline has erosional landforms such as headlands, cliffs and shoreline
platforms. This means that high-energy coastlines are concordant. High-energy coastlines
exist on the UK’s coasts, because the power of waves from the Atlantic ocean is very strong,
and the UK is the first land mass these powerful waves hit. South-West Cornwall bears the
brunt of the work of the weather coming from the Atlantic Ocean, but due to its geology of
very resistant and older rock, it can withstand the frequent winter storms without suffering
from rapid erosion.
A high-energy coastline is when the rate of erosion is higher than the rate of deposition and
they have very powerful waves. Stretches of the UK’s Atlantic-facing coastline where the
waves are powerful for most of the year have high-energy coastlines, for example, Cornwall.
Cornwall’s coastline has erosional landforms such as headlands, cliffs and shoreline
platforms. This means that high-energy coastlines are concordant. High-energy coastlines
exist on the UK’s coasts, because the power of waves from the Atlantic ocean is very strong,
and the UK is the first land mass these powerful waves hit. South-West Cornwall bears the
brunt of the work of the weather coming from the Atlantic Ocean, but due to its geology of
very resistant and older rock, it can withstand the frequent winter storms without suffering
from rapid erosion.
