Coastlines

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  • Production Date 2011
  • Duration 01.08
  • Key Stage 3-5
  • Category Pumpkin DVD
Holderness is Europe's fastest eroding coastline. This video introduces many of the issues facing local government, residents and businesses. And poses the question; 'What is the best way to manage…
  • Production Date 2011
  • Duration 03.16
  • Key Stage 3-5
  • Category Pumpkin DVD
Bring the power of coastal erosion to life, with this interview with a local farmer on the Holderness coast, as he demonstrates how quickly his land is being eroded. The…
  • Production Date 2011
  • Duration 06.36
  • Key Stage 3-5
  • Category Pumpkin DVD
This video describes the three ways the boulder clay can be eroded through hydraulic action, abrasion/corrasion and rotational slip. Using the Holderness coastline as an example, the process of longshore…
  • Production Date 2011
  • Duration 05.32
  • Key Stage 3-5
  • Category Pumpkin DVD
Since Roman times 14 villages along the Holderness coast have been taken by the sea. By building and maintaing defences erosion can be slowed down. This video includes interviews with…
  • Production Date 2011
  • Duration 05.52
  • Key Stage 3-5
  • Category Pumpkin DVD
Built in 1991 at a cost of £1.9 million the sea defences at Mappleton used 60,000 tonnes of granite to create a boulder wall at the base of the cliff…
  • Production Date 2011
  • Duration 04.06
  • Key Stage 3-5
  • Category Pumpkin DVD
All along the Holderness coast there is evidence of old sea defences no longer being maintained. Ideas of how to manage this coastline are changing. This video discusses the story…
  • Production Date 2011
  • Duration 05.14
  • Key Stage 3-5
  • Category Pumpkin DVD
Sandy Beaches Caravan Park in Kilnsea is the villages largest business. This video interviews the site manager and discuses how the business has coped with the coastal erosion. The process…
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