Swanage Essays

  • Coastal Landforms and Features Related to the Rock Type of the Area

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    for hypothesis1 we visited a number of places. These are all recorded by number on the geological map of the Isle of Purbeck. This also served as a location map (see M1 for details). * Man O War Cove * Lulworth Cove * North Swanage Bay * South Swanage Bay * Redend point * North Studland Beach * South Studland Beach * Sandbanks * Bournemouth * Durdle Door * Stair Hole * Old Harry's Rocks We used a sheet to record the information collected in each area. These

  • Tourism in The Isle of Purbeck

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    Tourism in The Isle of Purbeck HYPOTHESIS: =========== Tourism does more harm than good in The Isle of Purbeck Of Purbeck. Tourism should not be promoted or encouraged. WHERE IS IT? ============ Swanage is in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. The Isle of Purbeck is known to many different kinds of facilities to suit everyone's needs, one of the most populist features that The Isle of Purbeck has to offer is the award winning beaches. Because of the various types of attractions The

  • The Kimmeridge Clay in Dorset

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    years ago. The outcrop and subcrop from Kimmeridge Clay in England extends from Dorset to North Yorkshire but due to the lack of exposure inland, all stratigraphic studies of the formation has occurred in the costal sections between Weymouth and Swanage in Dorset ( Figure 1) (Cox and Gallios, 1981) Figure 1: Kimmeridge Clay Formation outcrops in the Dorset area Is largely, but not completely exposed at the surface at Kimmeridge. Thus the thickness can not

  • Work Experience Essay

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    Work Experience Essay It all began when my tutor informed us that we have to find our work placements for the two weeks of work experience.When we were first told about work experience I thought to my self 'great no school for two weeks.' I was looking forward to looking around places and trying to figure out what and where I wanted to do my work experience. I personally enjoy things associated with Sports and helping people so I wanted to do something along these lines. I started looking

  • Four Sources of Beach Material

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    Four Sources of Beach Material Most beaches of composed of rock breakdown with varying proportions of biological material usually shell fragments. However if its an accumulation of material at the high tide mark the following may be included; 1) Canada-timber beach 2) USA-tin can beach A beach may be a store in a bay or a mobile stream along the coast. Four Sources of Beach Material; · 1) Material eroded from