SAVVY Express: Alastair Clement - changing coastlines
Channel: Science Media Centre (NZ)
Date: 2016-12-07

Alastair Clement, lecturer at Massey University, explains his research on how the coast changes over time in response to changes in climate, sea-level, and tectonics. As part of his research he has investigated how the Manawatu coastal plain, where the towns of Palmerston North and Foxton are situated, was formed. The Manawatu coastal plain used to be an estuary. But over the last 10,000 years (a very short time in geological timescales) it has been filled with sediment from the Manawatu river, creating the plain.

Recorded in Dunedin at the New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Feb 2016, as part of Science Media SAVVY Express