Coastal geomorphology coursework on the North Norfolk coast - page 6
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: 6 of 8 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
of the beach after the peak of the stones the vegetation starts and it slowly flattens out there is a vast difference in the amount of stones over the back as that is much more sandy and a few plants there compared to the little or none that are on the sea side of the peak of pebbles.
The graph on the right shows our measurement of pebble sizes. The figures on the right of the graph are in millimetres. Overall it shows how many of each pebble were in each category of pebbles. The Y-axis shows how many of each pebble were in each category and the x-axis is the particular site that these pebbles were measured at.
As I have explained earlier the storm has pushed larger pebbles further up the beach. In the Overstrand section of my data presentation and analysis I talked about the longshore drift from Overstrand coming round to Cley. You could see that this was happening, as there was a small section of ½ m to about 1m of sand that was there. That could have come round from Overstrand. Of Cley there has also been quite a bit of dredging that is disrupting the natural processes of that area. While talking to the owners of a shop near that area the storm had pushed the water up over the peak of the pebbles and flooded the shop. The shop-owners had to bring in bulldozers and diggers to rebuild the section of pebbles that creates a barrier between them and the sea.
The dredging that is occurring in this area is causing unbalance in this region of the coast. The bulldozers also reconstruct the area to suit in this case the shop. When we went to Cley there was also a substantial amount of fisherman there. This causes a small reduction in the population of fish in this area that could affect that particular ecosystem.
For this part of my data presentation is the relevance of my graph and ho it shows the steepness of the gradient. This accurately shows the angles of the beach that is one of the ways that I collected data from Cley. I reproduced this collected data that was done by using the transect by creating a graph that gives a cross-section of the beach at Cley.
Conclusion
I think that my judgments that I have made in terms of the pebble sizes
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