Coastal geomorphology coursework on the North Norfolk coast - page 2
Keywords: This is a coursework on the coasts of Cley and Overstrand in the North Norfolk coast
By Northcott on 26/09/2008
Level: VGCSE
Page Number: 2 of 8 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
cost of sea defences against the land and the people in the affected houses. The local and national governments are less inclined to splash out money unless they have to. The area in question consists of several small seaside bungalows and some more expansive and expensive cliff-top properties. It is a popular holiday area as there is a caravan park there. Overstrand is also home to some cliffs that are rapidly being undercut by the North-sea waves.
The Overstrand cliffs are made of soft deposits from the last ice age. It is mainly chalk but there is some flint content as well. Chalk is a very soft rock so it is easily eroded that this is directly the source of the beaches that attract the tourists towards this seaside town. There has been some effort to rebuild these beaches so far groynes and revetments are the only extent of this.
History of Cley-next-the-sea
Cley is a small village in North Norfolk and is not next the sea ironically it is 1km away. There is a distinctive marshland that is hidden behind Blakeney spit that has formed over centuries. There are only some plants that can tolerate such salty conditions and can grow there for example: Sea Beet, Sea Blite and Sea Purslane. Cley is known over all the world of ornithologists as a perfect viewing ground for waders and common fowl. When it was on sea in the medieval times it was a thriving port that exported grain and wool form the hordes of sheep in East Anglia at that time. There is a shingle bank that links Cley to Blakeney spit is raised by bulldozers to keep the sea at bay.
Methodology
Cley
At Cley we will be collecting all the data this means that all of this is primary quantitive data that we have collected ourselves.
We will be using two main types of data collecting
1. Pebble sampling
2. Beach profile using a pantometer
The beach sampling method consists of using a quadrat (in picture shown below). This is a 50 cm squared box that will be at every berm progressively placed on the ground up the beach and then using callipers (shown in picture above) pebbles will be measured and then the average of these will be taken. This will show where the largest pebbles are found. Usually the bigger stones will be dropped off closer to the beach because the waves won’t be able to
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