The Sea

Surface Processes

The Sea has three processes

• Erosion

• Transportation

• Deposition

EROSIONEROSION

The breaking down of rock by

•Abrasion

•Hydraulic Action

•Air Compression

Features of Erosion

• Cave • Cliff• Sea Arch Stack and

Stump• Blowhole• Bays and Headlands • Wave Cut Platform

• Slieve League Donegal

• Cliffs of Moher Clare• Bridges of Ross Clare• Baltimore Cork• Killiney Bay Dublin• Loughshinny Dublin

                                           

                                                                                          

How are Archs and Stacks formed ?

www.vnc.qld.edu.au/enviro/landformndf-su.htm

How are Bays and Headlands formed ?

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/pubinfo/jump.html

http://www.vnc.qld.edu.au/enviro/landform/landf-su.htm

http://www.vnc.qld.edu.au/enviro/landform/landf-su.htm

                                                                                                       

                 

Sand Spit

http://www.naturepix.co.uk/ireland1.htm

                                                                           

                               

                               

Sand Spit

                               Sand spit