The Geography Department
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Walton-on-the-Naze
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Cliff failure and mass movement
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The bulbous extremity of a slump pushes onto the shoreline, where a lowered beach allows high tides to scour its foot into low, soft cliffs. |
A number of slumps are currently emerging from the large amphitheatre below the Naze Tower. |
One last slump onto the beach! |
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The concrete pillbox acts as a coastal recession marker. |
Fine silt and sand overlies some of the clay beach .. the clay being seen on the shoreline. |
Looking back at the cliff from the pillbox to a landscape of always fresh erosion. |
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The London Clay basement is being overridden by landslips and mudflows. |
Here a large sand fall has occurred from the upper part of the cliffs. |
This was moving! A very mobile - if small - mudflow invades the beach. |
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At the northern end of the Naze the spoil from dredging Harwich Harbour are almost gone; these low cliffs (1-2 metres) represent some of the last of the material. |
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The Naze Tower Opening times are: April-November 10am-5pm
Admission prices:
contact: e-mail nye-browne@ntlworld.com or phone 07966776417
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