COASTS

GENERAL

• anglia campus – revision and some useful interactive coasts activities

• BBC rivers & coasts main menu – excellent guide to coasts

LANDFORMS & PROCESSES

• longshore drift – good flash diagram showing how the waves move material (Swash/Backwash)

COASTAL CASE STUDIES

• Dorset coast – lots of useful information (though very complicated in parts)

• Gower Penisula – another useful source of information, this focuses on a section of the Welsh coastline

• Holderness & Spurn Head – useful information and pictures, including a virtual fieldtrip

LANDSLIDES

• Aberfan 1966 – BBC information on the Welsh landslide

• Aberfan Powerpoint – information on the landslide from mcg

• USGS landslide – computer simulation of a Californian landslide

• Japanese landslide – news article on the landslide in Kinki, Japan

RIVERS

GENERAL

• anglia campus – revision and some useful interactive rivers activities

• BBC rivers & coasts main menu – excellent guide to rivers

LANDFORMS & PROCESSES

• deposition – animation showing how sediment is deposited within a river system

• groundwater – a comprehensive interactive guide

• hydrological cycle – great guide to the water cycle, drag & drop exercise to complete too!

• meanders & ox-bow lakes – great flash movie showing how these form

• waterfalls – great flash movie showing how waterfalls and gorges form

RIVER FLOODING

• Boscastle 2004 – BBC information, with lots of good links, on the Cornish flood

• Boscastle flood – useful information bulletin, including maps and photos, from ‘Cunnighamlindsey UK’

• flood risk map – from the Environment Agency – enter your postcode, are you at risk?

• flooding summaries – Yellow river, Nile, Mississippi

• Lynmouth 1952 – BBC information about the infamous Devon flood

• Lynmouth flood – some useful information from Exmoor National Park site

• Lynmouth Powerpoint – information on the flood from mcg

• Mozambique 2000 – BBC information on the floods in Africa

RIVERS INTERACTIVE

• interactive river flooding – good site where you need to make careful observations

• Mapzone GIS missions – excellent OS investigation into flood damage control (what can you score out of 20?)

WEATHERING

• BBC guide to rocks – WOW! great introduction to rocks including experiments and interactive timelines

• The-stupid-page-of-rocks – actually not that stupid, comprehensive guide to rock types

• metamorphic rocks – a quick animation of how these form

• USGS describe the differences between weathering and erosion

HAZARDS

• natural disasters & hazards – google search