Monteray, Ca's Coastal Erosion

cruising through those small towns with souvenirs shops to each side, seafood restaurants mixed in and public access trails to the beaches spotted along the route you will notice that the buildings directly on the beach are on stilts.

sand being deposited upon it. The only reason why beaches shrink is due to erosion and this

* The sand dunes on the beaches. This area is affected by wind erosion as well as the tides if adequate vegetative cover is not present. The main type of erosion, from the sea, takes the sand from the sand dunes as well as the rest of the beach in a rip. The sand is then pulled out to sea where it forms a sand bar. On calmer days, the sand is brought back to the beach.

This newly exposed rock already had small cracks - weathering and erosion took full advantage of these. Water would creep in and the freeze - thus expanding. This expansion would create more cracks. Wind and water eroded by carrying away particles from cracks like these, as well as from the surface of the rock and any other nooks. Not only did water wash particles away - it also softened the rock which made erosion easier.

This work of art is titled, Monterey Bay from Santa Cruz Pogonip. The artist who created this piece is Tom Killion, and its creation came to be in 2002. The piece is a wood stamp press, these presses are hand carved into wood and linoleum blocks. Each variety of color that is present in the piece, a new block has to be created to ensure that the color doesn’t blend in ways the artist would not want it too. In the framed final piece, the stamp is separated into two different frames to gives focus to the the, Monterey Bay and then Santa Cruz. In this piece, Killion uses this chance to portray Santa Cruz in a landscape narrative, he uses depth to enable the landscape. The piece’s foreground is the mountain in Pogonip, a hiking area in the northern part of Santa Cruz County; then it starts spreading out to a horizontal view of the ocean, and at the bottom of the mountain, Santa Cruz is located. In the depiction of the town you see the shadows of the Big Dipper, an amusement park attraction and the historic Holy Cross Catholic Church.

In this project we had to pick an environmental issue in our area and research it. In this project I chose coastal erosion because it was the most common environmental issue. This is a problem because coastal erosion causes many people to lose their home and jobs that live on the coast and if this continues all of louisiana will be under water then nobody will have anywhere to live in Louisiana. This an issue not in just in Louisiana but on most every coastline in the world.

In chapter one, the main events that happen where: I. In the beginning of the story, the author describe over the details of the Salinas River and he wants to explain that his main characters George and Lennie will have a sense of the setting. The author says, "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool." (1) This shows how the author gives the description of Salinas River, how the valley runs down green, hillside banks and yellow sands.

The key finish of this review is that the territory east of Cahuenga Pass is a grating basic and stratigraphic component in the Santa Monica Mountains. The storm cellar rocks and the storm cellar structure in Forest Lawn, east of the Los Angeles River, resemble those in the Santa Monica Mountains west of CahuengaPass, yet are

Natural or human-made structures that cross a transform boundary are offset—split into pieces and carried in opposite directions. Rocks that line the boundary are pulverized as the plates grind along, creating a linear fault valley or undersea canyon. As the plates alternately jam and jump against each other, earthquakes rattle through a wide boundary zone. The lithosphere is the solid, outer part of the Earth. The lithosphere includes the brittle upper portion of the mantle and the crust, the outermost layers of Earth’s structure. The lithosphere is divided into 15 major tectonic plates: the North American, Caribbean, South American, Scotia, Antarctic, Eurasian, Arabian, African, Indian, Philippine, Australian, Pacific, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, and

Throughout the film there are many aerial shots of canyons especially in chapter two, Organic. The first canyon image in the movie is an aerial shot of what looks like the Grand Canyon. There is uneven rock formation rows in front of each other. The sunlight is coming from behind the camera, creating deep shadows on the front of the first valley and it creates deep shadows on the valley behind it. This shot moves very slowly across this area and then cuts to several close up shots of parts of the canyon, these images are low contrast they are mostly orange without distinct harsh shadows. After the closeups, there are more aerial shots of the canyon. With each shot the valleys get shallower and the contrast lowers. The shadows are less distinct as the land flattens, the land also has more and greener as it gets flatter, one of the last canyon shot we see before the transition to the next chapter shows the sun rising over completely flat desert like land in the area. For this chapter the filmmakers used regression of contrast to create transition from one scene to the next. The flattening in land with the lowering in contrast also shows time and how what used to be vibrant, with harsh and distinct lines and shadows can fade and erode into flat land with no depth and no contrast. The next chapter is named clouds, they use water to transition from dry harsh land to the flowing clouds in the sky.

It is this soft sand and clay which is easily eroded by the action of waves, as the ocean slowly claims back the region it used to occupy. There are

After the lithosphere, there is the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere is the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere. There is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur. It is semi solid molten metal that causes the movement of tectonic plates. The magma is ejected from this layer during volcanic eruptions. The asthenosphere is important to the other layers because since convection occurs there, it drives plate tectonics.

Formation of new oceanic crust at the mid- oceanic ridge; this also proves the theory of sea- floor spreading at the mid- oceanic ridge. The oldest one must move away from mid oceanic ridge to allow upwelling of molten materials. Molten materials later cool and solidify to form new oceanic crust. At the spreading centre liquid rock called basalt magma rises from the Earth’s mante as it up wells beneath the spreading axis. When the magma hardness it forms crust that becomes welded to the original crust ( Encyclopedia Geology and Oceanograph

Earth’s Lithosphere is made up of the oceanic and continental crust and the more liquid part of the upper mantle. The lithosphere is broken up into thirteen large pieces called tectonic plates. They move around on the mantle. The mantle is the largest layer. It takes up about eighty-four percent of the Earth. It has circular currents called convection. Underneath the mantle, there is the outer core. The outer core is made out of liquid iron and nickel, and the inner core is made out of solid iron and nickel.

The differences in weathering and erosion are as follows: Weathering involves two processes that often work together to decompose rocks. Mechanical weathering which involves physically breaking rocks into fragment with any change to their chemical make-up of its minerals within. Chemical weathering which is a chemical change in at least some of the minerals within a rock is the second process. Each one of these two processes occurs in place, there is no movement involved in weathering. It is important to remember that weathering is a surface or near surface process. When particles are loosened by one of the two processes of weathering it moves and then is called erosion. We call this erosion if the particle is moved by some flowing agent such as ice, wind, or water. Mass wasting, which is a form of erosion is movement down a slope due to gravity. Some examples of mass wasting are