Session B.16: Coasts

Greg Guthrie, Royal HaskoningDHV

With reference to crenulated bays can you comment on the influence of wide low crest harder platform headlands on the crenulated shape, especially with reference to SLR

Authors replies -

N Carpenter

This is a good question, and really the SCAPE modelling work to date cannot address this. The south-west coastline of the Isle of Wight described by Stuiver et al. (these Proceedings) considers the effect of different shaped headlands on a coast that appears swash-aligned. In broad terms the headlands and associated bays are similar in shape. On drift-aligned coasts this effect may be different.