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Soft rock cliffs - stabilisation
Cliff faces may also be re-profiled and sown with hardy grasses of little value
for nature conservation. All such works have the effect of stabilising the cliff
face, resulting in geological exposures being obscured, bare soil and early
pioneer stages of vegetation being progressively overgrown and wet flushes drying
out (Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries & Food
1994). The effect of these activities is to reduce (or eliminate) many
of the features associated with cliffs with intermediate rates of erosion (State
2).
References
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries & Food
1994.
Coast Protection Survey of England. Survey Report - volume 1, Summary Report.
MAFF.
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