Using Landscapes Case Studies
- Created by: Jenny
- Created on: 19-11-12 17:56
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- Using Landscapes
- Granite - Dartmoor, Devon
- The Rock
- Strong
- resistant to erosion
- impermeable
- The Landscape
- Tors
- Mostly Moorland
- Thin Soils
- Uses
- Granite Quarries
- eg. Meldon Quarry
- Tourism
- Granite tors, eg. Hound Tor
- Rearing Livestock
- 290,000 hectares were used in 2000
- Reservoirs
- 8 reservoirs in Datmoor
- Granite Quarries
- The Rock
- Chalk and Clay - Lincolnshire Wolds, Lincolnshire
- The Landscape
- chalk escarpments
- Clay Vales
- Chalk Aquifers
- Springs
- Uses
- Quarrying
- 438,000 tonnes of chalk quarried in 2001
- Tourism
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Farming
- 80% of the Wolds is used to grow crops
- Chalk Aquifer
- Supplies water to Lincolnshire
- Quarrying
- The Rock
- Chalk
- more resistant
- Clay
- less resistant
- Chalk
- The Landscape
- Limestone - The White Peak, Peak District
- The Landscape
- External
- Gorge
- Resurgent rivers
- Internal
- cavern
- stalactites
- stalagmites
- External
- Uses
- Quarry
- eg. Tunstead Quarry produces roughly 5.5 million tonnes of limestone each year
- To make cement
- Cement works @ Tunstead Quarry produce about 800000 tonnes of cement each year
- Tourists
- eg. Thors Cave; popular with cavers, and walkers
- Farming
- White Peak - mainly used for intensive dairy farming
- Quarry
- The Rock
- Permeable
- The Landscape
- Granite - Dartmoor, Devon
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