A video taken by local resident and artist Carol Cameron shows a major land slip off a cliff face at Thorpeness. The interesting thing to note is that prior to the land slip, significant scouring, due to wave action, had occurred at the base of the cliff. The subsequent fall of material from the frontage of the cliff can be seen in the video.
Author: alteredcoast
Altered Coast is a blog about coastal erosion on the Suffolk and Norfolk coast in East Anglia. The blog was originally inspired by an area of marshland in Suffolk, in a process of change, Hazelwood Marshes. It’s previous incarnation as a freshwater inland marsh dramatically altered when walls acting as a border were breached by a tidal surge in 2020.
The blog alteredcoast will seek to explore the concept of change in relation to coastal erosion. As whether a beach erodes or accretes (accumulates sediment) it always changes from how it appeared a day or a month before. It has been altered in some way.
The concept of change on this constantly evolving coastline will be consider how modifications happen and the factors that influence transformations, big and small. The challenges on the coast and its shifting features, will be discussed alongside the everchanging, ever restless North Sea. The constant accompaniment to the stories of the alteredcoast.
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