Erosion transports the fragments away ... Water is nature's most versatile tool. For example, take rain on a frigid day. The water pools in cracks and crevices. Then, at night, the temperature ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river bed and banks. Erosion also breaks up the rocks that are carried by the river. Landslides are occasional, rapid movements of a mass of earth or ...

The harder rock for example, chalk, will erode more slowly forming headlands which jut into the sea. This is called differential erosion. The erosion occurs due to a number of different processes ...

Other measures include timber revetments or seawalls to slow erosion. Such measures, however, cost millions of pounds per kilometre to install. Elsewhere, at Happisburgh for example, there has ...