Yan Oi Tong Mighty Rovers Arctic Expedition 2011
Study Project :
The coastal geomorphology in Arctic
(中譯: 看！那未被冰封的海岸地貌。)
Yuko Wong Suet Mei
DMHC Siu Ming
Secondary School
Rico Yau Man Ho
YOT Chan Wong Suk Fong
Mem Secondary School
Purpose of the Project :
•To understand how the Arctic coastal landscape looks like.
•To understand how the landscape has been formed over
many years.
•To understand how the formations of Arctic coastal
landscape differ from those in Hong Kong.
Hypothesis:
Factors affecting the formation of coastal landscape in
Arctic are similar to those in Hong Kong which include :
• Wave erosion
• Deposition
Hong Kong
coastal
landscape
Methodology
• Identify and record the landform features found in the eastern coast
of Greenland. (Recorded by photographing and jotting notes)
• Observe the features, see whether there are some evidences which may
probably contribute to its formation.
• Deduce how they formed from the clues/evidences.
• Draw diagrams to show the forming processes.
Methodology
the features found
in different spots :
Feature Fjord
Spit
Bar
V
V
Beach Delta
Lagoon
Spot
Sea
cave
Headland
V
V
Longyearbyan
V
V
14th July Glacier
V
Magdalenafjorden
V
Frederylcsal
V
Sydkap
V
V
V
Jyttesham
V
V
V
Rypefjord
V
V
Hekla Harm
V
V
Hurry Inlet
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
Factors related to the formation of coastal landscape in Arctic
deposition
Wave erosion
Glacial
movement
Tectonic
action
Features formed by :
wave erosion
wave deposition
Sea cave
Rocky beach
•14th July Glacier
• Sydkap
Features formed by:
glacial movement
moraine
•
Rypefjord
tectonic activities
More resistant
metamorphic
rock
•Hekla Harm
Findings:
• Sea wave erosion serves only a side factor and only one landform
feature recorded is related to sea wave erosion.
• There are many other factors leading to the presence of the
mentioned coastal landform features, like the glacial movement
and tectonic action, etc.
• Generally, there is no coastal landscape resulted from glacial
movement in Hong Kong, but Arctic does.
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Thanks