ABSTRACT

Coastal morphology geologically, the majority of Denmark has been built from Neogene and Holocene sediments that were primarily a result of sedimentation and sculpturing effect of the last two glaciations, the Saale and the Weichsel, in combination with marine impacts during the Holocene period. During the Weichsel, several ice advances covered Denmark - except for the south-western parts of Jutland - and ice moulded the landscape so that a large variety of glacio-tectonic structures can be found in many coastal cliffs. Wave energy and direction Denmark is primarily affected by low pressure weather systems from the west or north-west, i.e. a wave climate dominated by waves coming from westerly directions. Coastal Zone Management has been in existence in Denmark for many decades and physical planning, as such, has been applied for more than 100 years.