Shaping landscapes 4.4: Water and waves

Shaping landscapes 4.4: 
Water and waves
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Shaping landscapes 4.4: 
Water and waves

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Goals
After studying this section, you will be able to:

- Explain how the Grand Canyon was formed
- Compare and contrast erosion from rivers and the sea

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Fluvial erosion
V-shaped valley 

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Slide 4 - Video

Coastal erosion

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Slide 6 - Video

Coastal management
1. Hard engineering:
Static coast have always been placed by humans: dikes, dams and groynes

2. Soft engineering:
See next slide.

Dike
Groynes

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Beach nourishment

Sand gets sucked up from the bottom of the ocean and is added to the beach to make it higher and wider.

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Slide 9 - Link

An example of soft engineering. Between Ter Heijde en Kijkduin.

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