Some of the governing principles of 2D SCAPE are described below.
Further detail is given by Walkden and Hall (2005), Walkden and
Dickson (2008) and Walkden and Hall (2011). The cliff is represented
as a stack of horizontally aligned layers of uniform height (dz). The
face of the lower part of the cliff and platform is formed by the seaward
surfaces of these layers as illustrated in Fig. 2. However, initially, no
differentiation is made between the cliff face and the shore platform;
this junction emerges from
plunging, vertical cliff through the interaction
of the processes modelled including marine action near mean sea
level (Walkden and Dickson, 2008).