Viva Lewes Issue #134 November 2017

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THE LOWDOWN ON... Our eroding cliffs Don’t stand too close to the edge Little by little, Britain is changing shape. More than 50 per cent of the coastline is made of cliffs, and while in some places erosion is just a centimetre or two each year, in others, such as nearby Birling Gap, an average of 89 centimetres of the chalk face is falling into the sea every year. Last June the Sussex coast saw one of its biggest rock falls in recent years when a ten-metre section of the cliff at Seaford Head disappeared. No one was hurt, but it drew attention again to the dangers of standing too close to the edge. “You don’t need an obvious fissure in the ground to be a sign that the cliff might collapse,” says Dr John Barlow, a geomorphologist at the University of Sussex. “The formation of the rock varies along the coast. You might not see any evidence, but even if you’re six metres from the edge the ground below could be structurally weak.” It is these weaknesses that Barlow is now studying. With the aid of a drone aircraft that’s photographically mapping a section at Telscombe, he and his team have been able to make highly accurate 3D models of the cliff face. They are spotting the cuts and notches at the base caused by waves, and identifying the “over steepening” that can lead to those fragile ledges popular with selfie-taking sightseers just falling away. “People haven’t been killed, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t happen,” says Barlow. “The most dangerous times are at high tide or in bad weather, which doesn’t necessarily preclude people being in those places.” Not only are Barlow and his team gathering evidence of recent rock falls, but they will also be able to predict future events based on calculations that connect the height and energy of the waves with what’s happening at the cliff base. Telscombe, which doesn’t have the protection of a seawall, is particularly at risk, says Barlow. The A259 coast road is just 42 metres from the edge at its closest point. As erosion continues, his predictions are that by 2089 the road has a one in ten chance of being lost to the sea. Even in places where a seawall exists, the cliffs are gradually retreating through storm damage, rainfall and freeze-thaw conditions, he says. Brighton Marina saw significant rock falls in 2001 due to excessive wet weather affecting Black Rock, which is a paleo deposit of sand and shells and is particularly prone to weakness. Compared with some other maritime cliffs in the United Kingdom, the cretaceous chalk cliffs of Sussex – formed from the exo-skeletons of tiny marine animals that fell to the bottom of the sea more than seventy million years ago – are quite soft and vulnerable. And global warming could well be accelerating the process. Barlow says: “Our data suggest that increased storminess and rising sea levels will lead to a six per cent loss by 2089. It might sound alarming, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be losing our magnificent cliffs just yet.” Jacqui Bealing 111
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