Deriving mechanisms and thresholds for cliff retreat in soft-rock cliffs under changing climates: Rapidly retreating cliffs of the Suffolk coast, UK

Geomorphology

Volumn 153-154, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-60

  Brooks, S M ^a   Spencer, T ^b   Boreham, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cliff hydrology; Cliff morphodynamics; Coastal mass movements; Shoreline retreat; Southern North Sea; Storminess

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; HYDROLOGY; MASS MOVEMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RAINSTORM; SHORELINE; SOFT ROCK; THRESHOLD; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; NORTH SEA; SUFFOLK; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84859420871     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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