Eroding cliff face
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Eroding cliff face by Evelyn Simak as part of the Geograph project.
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Eroding cliff face
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 4 Nov 2008
Wave action is undermining the cliff face; here the sea is eating away at the layer of dark clay which forms the cliff base - crumbling and eventually toppling onto the beach. The layers above are slipping downwards, taking all vegetation with them. The exposed cliff face is easy prey for wind and weather. As can be seen at left, all that remains of the revetments along this section of coastline is a skeleton of bare posts with nothing much in between. Coastal erosion in the vicinity has been estimated at an approximate rate of one metre/year, which accounts for the loss of a strip of land approximately two kilometres wide since the Roman invasion in 43 CE, resulting in the disappearance into the sea of several medieval villages.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.83664
Longitude
1.51535