EAS205 Lecture Notes - Thunderstorm, Seagrass, Longshore Drift
23 Oct 2013
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The causes of flooding may change a little bit here. Sea level changes -> how bad its going to be depends on exactly where you are and what are the factors affecting it. Hazards: wont have that many signs because then that scares off tourists will have signs but nothing too serious. Population on coastlines is going up a lot. Coastline is always changing and we forget this fact we"re used to dealing with things on a human time scale as in now: may not see it appearing, notice it until it hits us in the face. Have to alter the coastline to accommodate the people living there because. If on an island you"ll probably live around the coastline something is happening that you don"t particularly like. Lots of input from water coming down the hill. As start to move off the shoreline. Small beaches -> go into water and it drops off really fast (narrow continental shelf)
