Case Study: Investigating Coastal Processes
Introduction: Welcome to Somerset As part of our GCSE Geography course, we were tasked to go to Nettlecombe Court Field Studies centre in Somerset. Nettlecombe Court lies in a secluded valley at the eastern edge of Exmoor National Park in the county of Somerset. It is situated in the south west of England near Bristol and Gloucestershire. Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills such as the Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park. The county has a lot of greenery and farms there showing that one major business is agriculture .Unemployment is lower than the national average, and the largest employment sectors are retail, manufacturing, tourism, health and social care. This report will investigate the coastal processes
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Therefore theses sites will be useful for our investigation as it has big attractions and relations with coastal processes and management.
Coastal Processes During our field trip in Somerset we had to investigate into the coastal processes along Porlock Bay. The processes we had to study and evaluate for our investigation were as follows:-
Waves
Waves are caused by the friction of the wind on the surface of the water. It starts of when the wind hits the surface of the water, causing the wave to change its movement shape. Due to this there is energy formed as the water moves forward with each wave. The movement of the water and wind can create different types of waves such as constructive waves and destructive waves.
Constructive Waves When water rushes up a beach it is called a swash. And when it drains back down a beach it is called a backwash. When a swash has created more energy than the backwash, materials from the water is carried and deposited on to the beach. This usually happens with low waves as it runs gently up the beach allowing the materials to be deposited
Therefore theses sites will be useful for our investigation as it has big attractions and relations with coastal processes and management.
Coastal Processes During our field trip in Somerset we had to investigate into the coastal processes along Porlock Bay. The processes we had to study and evaluate for our investigation were as follows:-
Waves
Waves are caused by the friction of the wind on the surface of the water. It starts of when the wind hits the surface of the water, causing the wave to change its movement shape. Due to this there is energy formed as the water moves forward with each wave. The movement of the water and wind can create different types of waves such as constructive waves and destructive waves.
Constructive Waves When water rushes up a beach it is called a swash. And when it drains back down a beach it is called a backwash. When a swash has created more energy than the backwash, materials from the water is carried and deposited on to the beach. This usually happens with low waves as it runs gently up the beach allowing the materials to be deposited