Case Studies - Rocks, Resourse and Scenery

DARTMOOR

• Granite quarries e.g. Meldon Quarry
• Tourism - millions of people visit each year for scenery such as Bowerman's Nose and Hound Tor.
• Over 90% of the land within the national park is farmed. Extensive sheep farming is often used, as sheep are well adapted to the moorlands and wet boggy ground caused by granites non-permeable qualities make arable farming difficult.
• There are 8 water reservoirs e.g. Burrator Reservoir

LONDON BASIN

• Water soaks into the chalk where it is exposed and then percolates through the chalk to form an aquifer.
• The aquifer supplies London with water.
• The impermeable clay beneath the chalk stops water running too deep.

THE WHITE PEAK, PEAK DISTRICT

• Tunstead quarry produce 5.5 million tonnes of limestone each year
• The cement plant makes 800,000 tonnes of cement each year
• Tourists are attracted to scenery e.g. Thors Cave in the Manifold Valley
• Intensive dairy farming is common.

WHATLEY QUARRY, SOMERSET.

• It is one of the largest quarries in the UK.

Advantages 

• Local employment opportunites
• Has a study centre - around 4000 people visit each year
• Donated stone to build a cycle track in the local area

Disadvantages

• A lot of noise and disruptions to wildlife
• 1.5km long and 0.6 km wide - a large area destroyed
• A man was killed in an industrial accident in 2008, proving the dangers of quarrying.

BLUEWATER, KENT

• Out of town shopping centre with ove 330 stores
• Opened in March 1999
• It was a former chalk quarry restored for recreactional use