River and Coastal Landform Processes

Explain how and why river landforms change over time across different scales.
Describe processes of fluvial erosion including abrasion, attrition, hydraulic action, and solution.
Explain transportation processes such as saltation, solution, suspension, and traction, as well as deposition.
Analyze the development of river landforms, including v-shaped valleys, waterfalls, gorges, floodplains, and meanders.
Identify associated smaller-scale features like slip-off slopes in meanders and plunge pools in waterfalls.
Explain how and why coastal landforms change over time across different scales.
Describe slope and coastal processes causing cliff retreat, including weathering, rock falls, and landslides.
Analyze the links between sediment supply, coastal erosion, transport (including longshore drift), and deposition.
Explain the development of distinctive coastal features such as headlands, bays, cliffs, wave-cut platforms, arches, stacks, beaches, and spits.
Identify associated smaller-scale coastal features like rock pools, wave-cut notches, and bedding planes.

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