The Challenges Of Predicting Coastline Retreat
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 09:00
in Earth & Climate
Despite much research on the many processes that erode rocky coastal cliffs, accurately predicting the nature, location and timing of coastline retreat remains challenging. This is also confounded by the apparently episodic nature of cliff failure. Coastline retreat via progressive failure of rocky coastal cliffsThe dominant drivers of coastal erosion, marine and sub-aerial processes, are anticipated in future to increase, so understanding their present and combined efficacy is fundamental to improving predictions of coastline retreat. read more