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Is Longshore Drift a good or bad thing?

answer the q please :smile:

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It's a bad thing because it erodes the land.

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Original post by the bear
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i love you babe.
Original post by Mrs.Grey
It's a bad thing because it erodes the land.

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yeah but the ting is that theres gotta be something good about it inet brav.
Original post by penelopecrux
i love you babe.



:colondollar:

srsly longshore drift has pluses and minuses ?

- it moves sand etc along the coast ?

*Mummy why can't we make a sandcastle like last year ?

*That's Longshore Drift sweetheart

*I hate Longshore Drift Mummy

+ it makes people build groynes

*which are very amusing
Original post by the bear
:colondollar:

srsly longshore drift has pluses and minuses ?

- it moves sand etc along the coast ?

*Mummy why can't we make a sandcastle like last year ?

*That's Longshore Drift sweetheart

*I hate Longshore Drift Mummy

+ it makes people build groynes

*which are very amusing


*why are you so amazing hubby?
It's just a thing. It happens.

Sediment is taken away from one area and transported to another. There is both erosion and deposition.

Generally it's bad for us because we build big solid houses on foundations that don't move with the changing coastlines - so we're often affected badly by beach erosion and the deposition isn't really useful.

So yeah, I guess it falls under a bad thing with regards to human infrastructure, as we generally suffer more from the erosional aspect than we gain from the depositional.

:yep:
Original post by penelopecrux
*why are you so amazing hubby?


that is my manifest destiny on here :yep:
Original post by the bear
that is my manifest destiny on here :yep:


oh hunny, it's not just on here :wink:
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It's good because you can draw pretty diagrams with arrows coming in and out of the ocean
*cris bc wrote serious answer and got no recognition for it from OP*
Original post by Asuna Yuuki
It's just a thing. It happens.

Sediment is taken away from one area and transported to another. There is both erosion and deposition.

Generally it's bad for us because we build big solid houses on foundations that don't move with the changing coastlines - so we're often affected badly by beach erosion and the deposition isn't really useful.

So yeah, I guess it falls under a bad thing with regards to human infrastructure, as we generally suffer more from the erosional aspect than we gain from the depositional.

:yep:


Are you from Japan?
Original post by penelopecrux
Are you from Japan?


Nope :3
Original post by Asuna Yuuki
Nope :3


Then where m8?
Original post by penelopecrux
Then where m8?


Oxfordshire :tongue:
Original post by Asuna Yuuki
Oxfordshire :tongue:


hey do you think they did the right thing to kill the poor gorilla?
Original post by penelopecrux
hey do you think they did the right thing to kill the poor gorilla?


nope, it wasn't the gorilla's fault, I think they should'a left it, tranq'd it, or anything other than kill it :frown:
Original post by Asuna Yuuki
nope, it wasn't the gorilla's fault, I think they should'a left it, tranq'd it, or anything other than kill it :frown:


EXACTLY. It was the stupid parents of the child's fault!!!!!!
Longshore drift is NOT erosion. Erosion removes material from a coast which is then transported by longshore drift.

Whether it is good or bad depends where you are. Longshore drift moves sediment along a coast; if you have large beaches then you don't want it to be moved elsewhere. If you are further along a coast, you want longshore drift to take sediment over to your section of the coastline.

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