Objective
This project is designed to provide detailed information on the evolution and development of rock-cut shore platforms, which are a widespread feature around the coast of Europe. The platforms are a major contributor to the dynamics of shoreline change and an important component of coastal ecosystems, yet current knowledge of their rates of development and downwearing is poor. Their presence or absence, persistence or destruction has important, but as yet poorly quantified impacts on rates of shoreline retreat, on rates of sediment delivery from rocky shores to the sea, on the durability of coastal defence structures and on the biological communities that inhabit these environments, some of which are commercially important.
The multi-disciplinary project will use novel, laser based technology developed by one of the partners to establish rates of downwearing of shore platforms from sample locations in contrasting coastal environments around the coast of the EU i.e. the Mediterranean, the Atlantic seaboard (including the Channel) and the Baltic. Through a monitoring programme linked to experimental investigations, it will study the interaction between the surface morphology and rates of downwearing of shore platforms; examine changes in the physical and mechanical properties of the rocks forming the platform surfaces, and identify the roles of chemical, physical and biological processes in effecting these changes.
Shore platforms are commonly backed by cliffs and the rates of erosion and retreat of such cliffs will be investigated in order to establish relationships between rates of cliff retreat and the downwearing and erosion of the platforms. On the basis of the data collected, quantitative models of the evolution of shore platforms and associated shoreline retreat will be developed. This will enable the investigators to predict the effects of possible changes in sea level in these environments, and provide valuable input into coastal defence and coastal development plans, and coastal conservation programmes.
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- natural sciences physical sciences optics laser physics
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems coastal ecosystems
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BN1 9QJ BRIGHTON
United Kingdom
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