Distinctive landscapes

• Coastal area - human activity affecting geomorphic processes, facts

  South of Swanage bay, clay cliffs, groynes and sea walls, 0.5 m per annum, 14 m wide.

  North of Swanage Bay, National Trust, clay cliffs, 1 m per annum, 7 m wide
• Geology of Uk creates distinctive landscapes, facts

  Cuillin Hills in Isle of Skye, granite, pastoral farming.

  South Downs, chalk, arable farming
• Coastal area, geology affected geomorphic processes - facts

  Swanage, Wheldon beds and greensand, rotational slumping.

  Swanage, chalk cliffs, Old Harry’s rocks, headlands and stacks
• Coastal area, geomorphic processes affect coastline - facts


  Swanage, clay cliffs, Wheldon beds and Greensand, rotational slumping.

  Swanage, Old Harry, stacks, chalk.
• Coastal area, climate affected geomorphic processes - facts

  Swanage, April, 9 degrees, 50mm, biological weathering.

  Swanage, September, 14 degrees, 70mm, rotational slumping.
• Coastal area, human activity impacted landscape - facts

  2005, 90,000cm^3, Swanage bay, 14m wide, soft engineering.

  Hard engineering, seawall, 2005 18 timber groynes.
• Uk climate influence landscape - facts

  Isle of Skye, January, 1500mm annually, 5 degrees, granite, mechanical weathering

  Sussex, August, 17 degrees, 50mm, chalk, biological weathering
• River, climate influenced geomorphic processes – facts

  River Wye, Plynlimon, 762m high, relief rainfall, 1,400mm pa, January, 157mm.

  February, 3 degrees, shale and gritstone, 10%.
• River, human activity impacted landscape - facts

  Upper course of River Wye, WW2, looks natural.

  Hereford, Letton lake, deepened and widened, looks less natural.
• River, geomorphic processes created landforms

  Levées, River Wye, below Hereford.

  Cleddon Falls, River Wye.
• River, geology influenced geomorphic processes - facts

  Cleddon Falls, upper course of River Wye, sandstone, limestone.

  Cambrian Mountains, Plynlimon, shale and gritstone.
• River, human activity influenced geomorphic processes - facts

  River Monnow, tributary of River Wye, weir, 1.5m pa, willow.

  WW2, upper course of River Wye, Plynlimon.