Case Study: The Yorkshire Coastline
Your case study will include annotated and labelled maps,
annotated and labelled diagrams discussion,
Scarborough
photographs, tracing overlays and any other useful
Jurassic Rocks method of explaining the information. Geography in
Focus has some excellent pictures you could annotate
your work with.
Filey
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO INCLUDE IN YOUR CASE STUDY FILE
Speeton Clay Flamborough Head 1. The are the main direction(s) of the prevailing
Bridlington wind
2. The fetch of the waves
Chalk
3. The areas of coastline exposed to erosion
4. The areas of coastline exposed to transportation
5. The areas of coastline exposed to deposition
The Coast of
Holderness
6. The geology of the coastline
7. The landforms created from erosion (inc. stacks, headlands and
Mappleton bays, and coves wave-cut platform)
8. The landforms created from deposition (inc spit)
North Sea 9. ‘Focus Files’ (i.e. detailed work) on each of the following
Boulder Clay a. Scarborough
b. Flamborough
c. Mappleton
d. Hornsea
e. Spurn Point
Useful websites include:
Humber http://www.hull.ac.uk/geog/html/resources.html
Estuary Spurn
Point

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/holdernesscoast.html
http://www.geography.btinternet.co.uk/coasts.htm#Case%20studies