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WESTWARD HO!FIELDTRIP
SOUTH MOLTON CC DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
“Nothing in this world is permanent except change”
Heraclitus Greek philosopher (535 - 475 BC)
Source of Pebbles – Hartland Quay
Westward Ho! Beach
Cobalt Apartments
Nassau Court
View From Kipling Tor
Wave Patterns at Westward Ho!
Old Coastguard Lookout
Cornborough Wave Cut Platform
Cornborough Beach
Mermaid’s Pool and Wave Cut Platform
Cliff Instability Above Mermaid’s Pool
Raised Beach Behind Mermaid’s Pool
Raised Beach and Old Cliff Line, Seafield
8m platform at Seafield marks sea level 125,000 years ago in last warm period. The pebble beach of that time is capped by the cold stage slope debris (HEAD).
Old Sewage Pipe
Wave Cut Platform
Active Erosion at Seafield House
Cave in Present Cliffline
Pot Hole on Wave Cut Platform
Pebbles in Raised Beach at Seafield House
Victorian Sea Wall Below Caravan Park
Sea Wall and Rock Armour by Slipway
Sea Wall
Rock Armour (Rip Rap) below Sea Wall
Sea Wall, Rip Rap and Beach Deposits
Waves Breaking on Sea Armour
Westward Ho! Beach and Slipway
Exposed Beach - 1984
Pebble Ridge From Kipling Tor
Pebble Ridge & Sandymere
The Pebble Ridge & Northam Burrows
Taw-Torridge Estuary & Northam Burrows
The Pebble Ridge
Material at Westward Ho!Includes rounded blocks
from the Hartland directionand local slate type rocks.
All the pebbles at Westward Ho! showpercussion scars where rocks have
hit them. This is Abrasion and Corrasion.
The Pebble Ridge & Northam Burrows
Pebble RidgeRetreat1861 to1947
(Average = 1.5 m/yr)
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The Pebble Ridge (showing old groyne)
Gabions abandonedGabions abandonedPebble Ridge Gabions Isolated by Ridge Retreat (1985)
replenish2replenish2Beach Replenishment
1962 Torn gap infilled 1962 Torn gap infilled Repairing a Breach - 1962
Waves Breaching Pebble Ridge & Flooding Northam Burrows