1. The Dorset Coast (and a little bit of Hampshire!)
~ a virtual field trip ~
I took this picture!

2. Where it is located

3. Day 1– The journey to Dorset! Day 2 – Lyme Regis to Ringstead Bay

4. Groynes
An aerial photo of Lyme Regis Bay, showing ‘The Cobb’ (Harbour) and where the River Lim meets the sea

5. Lyme Regis ~ Charmouth ~ Golden Cap

6. The cliff top at Black Ven
The coast is unstable because there are numerous situations where porous strata, principally the Chalk and Upper Greensand, lie over impermeable clays.
Black Ven between Lyme Regis and Charmouth. Upper Greensand lies over Lower Jurassic clays. The largest coastal mudflow in Europe took place here in the winter of 1958/9
The cliff top at Black Ven

7. How Landslides occur

8. The gradient of the beach can get very steep
Chesil Beach
Isle of Portland
The Fleet
West Bay (west)
Pebbles are ’sorted!’
Portland (east)
The gradient of the beach can get very steep

9. The Isle of Portland
When the island was uplifted, a series of massive fractures developed in the limestone.

10. Portland Harbour (South of Weymouth)
Weymouth is a traditional seaside resort. It is protected by the Isle of Portland.
Portland Harbour (South of Weymouth)

11. White Nothe Headland from Ringstead Bay

12. Day 3 – Ringstead Bay to St. Alban’s head
Durdle Door ~ Lulworth Cove ~ Stair Hole ~ Warbarrow Bay ~ Tynham ~ Broad Bench ~ Kimmeridge ~ Winspit

13. Durdle Door ~ A Limestone Arch
Eventually the arch will collapse to leave a sea stack

14. Chalk Hills stop the cove eroding any further inland
Lulworth Cove
Chalk Hills stop the cove eroding any further inland
Soft sand and clays
Limestone Headlands

15. Stair Hole Small arch is only gap in the limestone.
Marine processes eroding further inland

16. The formation of Lulworth Cove, Stair Hole and the future

17. Tyneham from Gadd Cliff
Worbarrow Bay
Tyneham from Gadd Cliff
(Note the land use)
Broad Bench

18. Kimmeridge Bay – A wave cut platform

19. Waves shape the coastline.
St. Alban’s Head
Winspit (behind)
Chapmans Pool
Waves shape the coastline.
Winspit

20. Day 4 – St. Albans Head to Sandbanks

21. Looking out to see from Anvil Point
Dancing Ledge
(+ tidal pool!)
Sandbanks
Studland
Old Harry
Swanage Bay
Peveril Point
Looking out to see from Anvil Point
Durlston Head
Anvil Point

22. Swanage
Swanage Bay

23. Old Harry Rocks – A stack
Collapsed
Undercuttingmeans stack will collapse
New cave forming

24. Studland – Sand Dune System
3 Major dune ridges
Little Sea
Fieldwork (transects!)

25. Development of Studland – Blown Sands
Little Sea

26. View over dune slack with further vegetation succession
Younger dunes with Marram Grass
Actual fieldwork!
Hmmmmmm!

28. Day 5 – Sandbanks to Barton on Sea and the Isle of White

29. Bournemouth
Sandbanks
Bournemouth
Bournemouth Pier
Groynes

30. Hengistbury Head Christchurch Harbour Spit Groynes Long Groyne
Sediment Build Up

31. Hengistbury Head
Unstable Cliffs
Gullies
Groynes
Salt Marsh
Erosion

32. Barton on Sea Landslides
House!
Barton on Sea Landslides
Landslip

33. Barton on Sea
Christchurch Bay
Evidence of lanslides
Land Use

34. River Medina ~ A Ria Isle of Wight
East Cowes
West Cowes
River Medina
To Newport