"The coastal zone is the area in which terrestrial environments influence marine environments and vice versa. It is the interface between land and sea"
Carter, 1988
Dead trees next to Thornham boathouse, North Norfolk. Picture by Mister P.
GO HERE FOR HELP WITH THE FIELDWORK VISIT
Go HERE for more details on the piece of work you'll need to do once we've been to the coast...
Remember this is the major piece of work for the Autumn term 2007
Thanks to Dr. Simon Woodhouse from Holt Hall Field Study Centre for his enthusiastic and expert tuition.
Includes ICT Exercise
Make sure that you appreciate the difference between ISOSTATIC and EUSTATIC.
5. COASTAL MANAGEMENT ON THE HOLDERNESS COAST
6. COASTS TEST
Link removed until this year's Geographers have taken the test....
7. COASTAL DEFENCES at West Bay
8. Cliff collapse at Corton - courtesy of the SLAMNET site
9. SAND DUNE RESOURCES
Sand Dunes: the Sands of Time - excellent site at Liverpool Hope
There is a good link here with recreation. The British Open Golf championship is always played on a links course. LINKS GOLF courses are made from sand, and the uneven nature of the fairways, hollows and undulating greens is entirely due to the work of the wind (with a little help from a sympathetic architect who can see the potential of certain areas of the dune system).
There are a series of resources, including panoramas and a QUICK TIME movie of MAGILLIGAN DUNES in the NW of Northern Ireland at the Geography in Action site. Would make a useful case study / research task.
For more on the effect of nature on GOLF COURSES see my new GOLF page, which looks at the various links between GOLF and GEOGRAPHY.
An updated section for October 2007 is my page on:
10. Waves
11a. Note taking exercise from 'Landform Systems' textbook
11b. Coastal Erosion questions from 'Landform Systems' (now with added notes)
12. Sources of Sediment - notes from Mr. Douglass
13. COASTAL EROSION on the NORTH NORFOLK COAST (see section below too....)
The JFK school in Hertfordshire have produced some excellent ICT resources. They have also placed online an excellent resource: a project for EDEXCEL 'B' students (but useful for other syllabuses...)
Thanks for the recent contact. This resource is all set to be substantially added to in the immediate future. Also updated the link in September 2007
http://www.jfk.herts.sch.uk/north_norfolk/
Has some very useful sections: information on a Case Study of the NORTH NORFOLK COAST. There is also a look at changing coastlines over time, and it includes the interesting snippet of the change in name of the term MANAGED RETREAT to MANAGED REALIGNMENT as the former sounds a little too negative. Has maps, details on the processes, study of floods in 1996, and close ups on areas such as the Freiston Shore over the other side of the Wash There are details on beach management at Overstrand, and details on the relative merits of HARD and SOFT engineering, and saltmarsh conservation. This is an excellent resource and is a Recommended visit. Has a range of excellent photos of the defences at places along the coast, such as Sheringham, where there are even costings of some of the methods used.
For the GEOLOGICAL background, go to this excellent individual effort at a FIELD GUIDE.
Go HERE for a QTVR movie of HAPPISBURGH which is a little further round, South of Cromer.
Go HERE for a WORD DOCUMENT which outlines a task I set my L6 group recently related to this...
The North Norfolk DISTRICT COUNCIL site linked to from here has a range of resources designed for GCSE / AS students.
The information is aimed at GCSE and A-Level students but should be of use to anyone interested in the cliffed coastline of North Norfolk.
Document 1 -The Coastal Environment
This document provides information on the North Norfolk coastal environment and the physical processes operating on it.
Document 2 - North Norfolk's Coastal Defences
Provides information on the history, purpose and current composition of the coast protection defences on the North Norfolk coast.
Document 3 - An Introduction to Coastal Defence
A brief set of notes produced for a public meeting. Provides information on the administrative arrangements for the provision of coastal defences.
Document 4 - Additional information on Coast Protection
A collection of notes providing more information on Shoreline Management Plans, how coastal defences works are funded, the Prioritisation Scoring Scheme, and Public Accountability.
Document 5 - The Executive Summary of the 3B Shoreline Management Plan.
Document 6 - A summary of the policies for the 3A Shoreline Management Plan.
Document 7 - Sheringham Coast Protection Scheme.
Details of recent coast protection work undertaken at Sheringham.
Document 8 - Clifton Way Coast Protection Scheme.
Details of the work undertaken at Clifton Way, Overstrand, following a major cliff failure.
Document 9 - Coast Protection Assets
A detailed list of North Norfolk's coast protection assets. 2001 version.
Document 10 - Ostend to Cart Gap Coastal Strategy Study
- Note that this document is a large pdf file (2.7MB)
This study provides a framework for the sustainable management of the coastal defences between Ostend and Cart Gap, including Happisburgh.
14. KENT COAST
Added April 2004 - due to a trip along the coast following the GA Conference in Canterbury.
David Rayner's excellent GEO RESOURCES has a VIRTUAL TRIP along the Kent coast at Reculver. This is a great starting point for the use of this area of Kent coastline as a CASE STUDY and is a bit of a Geographical 'classic'. An extension page HERE looks at the COASTAL MANAGEMENT options. A few searches threw up a range of other sites which are helpful in this area too...
THIS SITE looks at the natural history perspective of the area around Reculver.
There is an excellent report on COASTAL EROSION including some useful illustrations at this Canterbury City Council site. They are very useful and go through some of the methods which could be attempted to slow down erosion, including TOE WEIGHTING, and DRAINAGE SYSTEMS.
Try also this excellent site - click the logo below:
It looks at some of the options for the management of the coast: HOLDING THE LINE and DOING NOTHING in this particular area.
There's a link from the site above to the site for the southern part of the coast - go HERE - one of these areas includes SAMPHIRE HOE: a feature made from the material excavated from the Channel Tunnel.
15. COASTAL MANAGEMENT
There are 3 aspects to management:
Protecting coastal features from erosion
Conserving coastal ecosystems
Allowing human activity to continue unaffected
Plus
4 ideas: Hold the Line, Advance the Line, Do Nothing or Retreat...
Coastal Realignment rather than retreat...
Tasks: With the aid of Geo Factsheet 100: Coastal Management at Selsey, and video of BBC programme "Nightmare Homes" featuring the Mars family pig farm near Mappleton and the residents of Happisburgh.
QUESTIONS
1. Distinguish between what is meant by coastal defence and coastal protection measures
2. Why do people choose to live in such hazardous areas ?
3. Most coastal management plans include 4 main options. What are the options ?
4. What suggestions are given on the video for possible reasons for the rate of erosion increasing in recent years ?
5. What fieldwork techniques could be used if investigating the area in the worksheet/on video to assess the nature and rate of coastal erosion ?
Some interesting images of the coast near Arbroath sent to me by Val Vannet can be seen, along with commentary here. New for December 2004
17. IF YOU'RE EVER IN THE AREA
Check out this art work at BAWDSEY in SUFFOLK.
The artist Bettina Furnee planted a series of flags on the top of low cliffs near to a Martello Tower on the Suffolk coast. The flags contained a letter which spelled out the message SUBMISSION IS ADVANCING AT A FRIGHTFUL SPEED... and that was certainly the case.
A webcam took a picture of the scene every 15 minutes.
The flags disappeared completely by the middle of September....
Now has a downloadable movie of the whole period...
18. COASTAL DEPOSITION
Group activity
For this activity you will be preparing a short POWERPOINT presentation on a feature to be determined by the teacher.
This will then be presented by your group on the Interactive Whiteboards in next Friday's lesson, and you will be assessed on your presentation in terms of a) content and b) delivery.
You will be handed a slip of paper which contains the name of the feature which you will be researching.
The presentations will be made available on this site, so any images must be appropriately credited and any that lack copyright will be removed before the presentation is posted.
Get yourself into groups.
OK, ready ?
You may start now....
19. COASTAL DEFENCE: MANAGED REALIGNMENT (not retreat....)
Click to download a WORD DOCUMENT ON MANAGED REALIGNMENT - this goes along with a BBC4 programme which we transferred to DVD for showing on the IWB. It has details of one of the first schemes to get around the problem of the COASTAL SQUEEZE on salt marshes at the Blackwater estuary in Essex. Also given you a GeoFile on North Norfolk coast and managed retreat...
20. The ACTIS Geography Online site has (or possibly had) a free section which includes some FREE resources on SEA-LEVEL CHANGE, including a presentation on LONGSHORE DRIFT. There are other useful materials for those who choose to SUBSCRIBE to the site. These can be found easily with an appropriate search. Try a FREE trial run, and check out the sample materials too.
21. The 'Cubos de la Memoria' at Llanes in Asturias.
Very colourful. This image is from Wikipedia, by Ramon Noriega and is reproduced under Creative Commons license.
What other methods can you think of to make coastal defences a little more attractive ?
22. COASTAL ACTION ZONES
These are set up to help certain areas of coastline develop...
http://www.coastalactionzone.co.uk
23. COASTAL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
We looked at this in November 2007
North Norfolk Coastline SMP
http://www.northnorfolk.org/coastal
There is a vital document which you need to download, so that you can keep up to date with the shoreline management plans for this region.
There is a perfect 4 page document to download. Looks at the 4 types of management, the reasons why the coast needs protecting and the different decisions that are being made for the next few years. If you are asked to talk about a particular STRETCH of coastline, then this could be the one to use for this particular type of question.
http://www.lep.co.uk/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?pageid=70690
More links
Go HERE for COASTAL FIELDWORK LINKS
All the information you need from the day at Stiffkey and Holkham
Go HERE for the HOLDERNESS LINKS PAGE
Go HERE for TEACHERS' LINKS relating to COASTS
Daniel Ellison has placed the results of his excellent WALLS TO WINDOWS project on his (now ex) school website. Check them out now, but go easy as there's some bandwidth involved here. There are a series of folders there at the moment. Of course, you could always have a go at producing your own movies. There are clips for various topics: COASTS, RIVERS, RESOURCES (a good 6 minute 'documentary' exploring pros and cons of wind power), and some animations showing what will happen to places such as Durdle Door and Old Harry Rocks over the years.
See more on the VIDEO IN GEOGRAPHY page.
Another area prone to erosion is the area around the famous striped cliffs of Hunstanton. See the images below. These were taken on a very chilly Boxing Day 2004.
Images by Mister P.
CHECK OUT ROB CHAMBERS' RESOURCES !
Click the picture or HERE to go to the page.
This features links to some excellent materials for our specification: these include a COURSE OVERVIEW, and details on each of the MODULES at AS which have games, notes, activities etc.
