The coastline is vanishing at speeds of up to 13 feet each year. ... The Holderness Coastline, also made of boulder clay, ... While many cliffs in the UK are made of boulder clay, ...

"I hadn't realised the disappearing Holderness coastline was so popular on the geography syllabus," he said. ... The two main types of rock along the coast are chalk and boulder clay.

The images date from the 1940s through to the 1990s and show properties lost, or about to be lost, to the ravaging waves or huge slips of the boulder-clay cliffs collapsed onto the shore below.

East Riding Council has applied for funding to protect the Holderness coast. hulldailymail. Bookmark. Share; News. By. Jack Muscutt, Local Democracy Reporter. 09:24, 29 NOV 2018; Updated 10:34, 29 ...

In a concerning prediction, Phil Mathison, of Withernsea's Coastal Change Observatory, says that, should what is left of the crumbling cliff edge fall away, the North Sea could inundate Tunstall ...

Monitoring of the soft clay cliffs on the 80km Holderness Coast has found that the coastline is eroding at a rate of between 0.5 metres and 4 metres each year, the fastest in Europe. It has seen ...

The coastline is vanishing at speeds of up to 13 feet each year. The reason for the hasty coastal retreat is because the cliffs are made of boulder clay, which erodes very easily.

Dramatic pictures by an amateur photographer of coastal erosion have been snapped up by more than 100 schools to use in geography lessons. Andy Medcalf, an IT project manager, took the pictures of ...