Depositional Features

L/O: to be able to explain longshore drift and how

spits and bars were formed by deposition

Starter:
What do these features have in common?
They were both created by
deposition

The dropping of eroded

material by the sea
The 2 depositional features

A long stretch of sand

stretches across a bay A long stretch of sand
leaving a lagoon behind across a river mouth with
one end attached to the
mainland

1. Bars 2. Spits
 Can someone explain the diagram?

Cliff
Beach

Swash Backwash

Sea
Eroded material moves along the beach
Wind
direction
Q) Explain how material is moved along the coast (6m)

 Material is transported along the coast by a

process called Longshore Drift
 Waves come into the beach at an angle and pick up
material
 They come in at an angle because of wind direction
 The waves that come in are called swash
 The water pulls the material back down the beach
 The waves move back down the beach due to
gravity
 These backwards movements are called backwash
 This process repeats itself along the beach
 The material is moved along the beach.
 Key idea for today
Longshore drift will continue along a coastline
until the coastline changes direction
 Stages of spit development:

1. Material is moved along the coastline by Longshore drift

2. When the coastline changes shape, LSD continues and material is
deposited out to sea and continues to build up forming a spit
3. Strong winds can cause the end of a spit to bend or curve
4. In the sheltered water behind the spit deposits of mud can build
up forming a salt marsh
 Bar
If a spit joins one part of the mainland to another it is
called a bar.
• Prevailing wind and waves
generate the movement
of sediments through the
process of long shore
drift.
• Change in shape of
headland results in the
deposition of sediments
and the development of a
spit.
• Spit grows out from the
headland and across the
bay joining the opposite
headland. Forming a BAR
https://www.youtube.com/wat • Both headlands are now
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connected by the same
spit and damn of the bay
 PLENARY:

What’s the landform?

The following pictures are from the last few lessons.
Write down the name of the landform and say if its
EROSIONAL or DEPOSITIONAL.
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.
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Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Spit

Depositional
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Cave

Erosional
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Spit

Depositional
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Arch

Erosional
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Bar

Depositional
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Stack

Erosional
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Beach/Bay

Depositional/Erosional
Picture Quiz: Name the Landform.

Headland

Erosional