Investigation of River Gwaun
Introduction
I am investigating how the course of the river changes from the source
to the mouth. I will study the River Gwaun at 4 sites, starting at
Gellifawr (near the source), then going to Pontfaen, then Llanychaer,
then finally ending at Lower Fishguard, near the mouth where the river
meets the Irish Sea.
I went to do my fieldwork on the 20th May 2002 with my Geography class
and another from my year. I was in a group of 5, with Richard
Gledhíll, Chrís Strzeleckí, Jason Inglesant. Ashley Stone and James
O'Shea. We worked in a group because it is the easiest and probably
the only way to collect all the data we need at each site. We
collected data from each of the 4 sites.
Site 1 - Gellifawr
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Overhanging and heavy vegetation and steep V-shaped valley
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This is close to the source and is situated in the Preseli Hills. The
relief is steep and the banks are V-shaped, typical of parts of the
river in the Upper Profile. The water and the banks are very muddy.
The river was apparently flowing slowly, there was a lot of large,
angular bed load and there was a few small waterfalls. There was
evidence of turbulence at some parts of the river.
Site 2 - Pontfaen
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This site was on a floodplain next to a farm. There was evidence of an
ox-bow lake nearby, which shows the river had been meandering. The
river is flowing quite fast and the bed load is mostly small
sub-angular/rounded pebbles. The river is quite wide and had much
clearer water than Site 1. The riverbanks were flat but there was an
overhang. There was some evidence of man-management as there were big
boulders on one side of the river (the side bordering the farm), which
is presumably to stop eroding on to farmland and the small pebbles
covered the bed to stop erosion and making the river deeper.
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