Title: The Dorset Coast (and a little bit of Hampshire!)
1The Dorset Coast(and a little bit of Hampshire!)
I took this picture!
2Where it is located
3Day 1 The journey to Dorset!
Day 2 Lyme Regis to Ringstead Bay
4Groynes
An aerial photo of Lyme Regis Bay, showing The
Cobb (Harbour) and where the River Lim meets the
sea
5Lyme Regis Charmouth Golden Cap
Golden Cap
6The coast is unstable because there are numerous
situations where porous strata, principally the
Chalk and Upper Greensand, lie over impermeable
clays.
Black Ven between Lyme Regis and Charmouth. Upper
Greensand lies over Lower Jurassic clays. The
largest coastal mudflow in Europe took place here
in the winter of 1958/9
The cliff top at Black Ven
7How Landslides occur
8Chesil Beach
Isle of Portland
The Fleet
West Bay (west) Pebbles are sorted! Portland
(east)
The gradient of the beach can get very steep
9The Isle of Portland
When the island was uplifted, a series of massive
fractures developed in the limestone.
10Weymouth
Weymouth is a traditional seaside resort. It is
protected by the Isle of Portland. Portland
Harbour (South of Weymouth)
11White Nothe Headland from Ringstead Bay
12Day 3 Ringstead Bay to St. Albans head
Durdle Door Lulworth Cove Stair Hole
Warbarrow Bay Tynham Broad Bench Kimmeridge
Winspit
13Durdle Door A Limestone Arch
Eventually the arch will collapse to leave a sea
stack
14Lulworth Cove
Chalk Hills stop the cove eroding any further
inland
Soft sand and clays
Limestone Headlands
15Stair Hole
Small arch is only gap in the limestone.
Marine processes eroding further inland
16The formation of Lulworth Cove, Stair Hole and
the future
17Worbarrow Bay
Tyneham from Gadd Cliff (Note the land use)
Broad Bench
18Kimmeridge Bay A wave cut platform
19St. Albans Head
Winspit (behind)
Chapmans Pool
Waves shape the coastline.
Winspit
20Day 4 St. Albans Head to Sandbanks
21Dancing Ledge ( tidal pool!)
Sandbanks Studland
Old Harry
Swanage Bay
Peveril Point
Looking out to see from Anvil Point
Durlston Head
Anvil Point
22Swanage
Swanage Bay
23Old Harry Rocks A stack
Stack
Collapsed
Undercuttingmeans stack will collapse
New cave forming
24Studland Sand Dune System
3 Major dune ridges
Little Sea
Fieldwork (transects!)
25Development of Studland Blown Sands
Little Sea
26View over dune slack with further vegetation
succession
Younger dunes with Marram Grass
Actual fieldwork!
Hmmmmmm!
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28Day 5 Sandbanks to Barton on Sea and the Isle
of White
29Bournemouth
Sandbanks
Bournemouth
Bournemouth Pier
Groynes
30Christchurch Harbour
Spit
Hengistbury Head
Groynes
Long Groyne
Sediment Build Up
31Hengistbury Head
Unstable Cliffs
Gullies
Groynes
Salt Marsh
Erosion
32House!
Barton on Sea
Landslides
Landslip
33Barton on Sea
Christchurch Bay
Evidence of lanslides
Land Use
34 River Medina A Ria Isle of Wight
East Cowes
West Cowes
River Medina
To Newport
35Thats it!
Day 6 - Back to School