Tourism in The Isle of Purbeck

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Tourism in The Isle of Purbeck

HYPOTHESIS:

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Tourism does more harm than good in The Isle of Purbeck Of Purbeck.

Tourism should not be promoted or encouraged.

WHERE IS IT?

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Swanage is in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. The Isle of Purbeck is

known to many different kinds of facilities to suit everyone's needs,

one of the most populist features that The Isle of Purbeck has to

offer is the award winning beaches. Because of the various types of

attractions The Isle of Purbeck has to offer, it is known as a

'honeypot site'.

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During our year 10 visit to The Isle of Purbeck we found out that it

is well known for the unique geology of the landforms, which is

another attraction for tourists. We investigated in further depth the

following sites:

The Blue Pool

Old Harry Rocks

Studland Bay

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Lulworth Cove

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In the next several pages I will explain the geology of The Isle of

Purbeck itself and will explain the geology of the other landforms we

visited whilst on our visit. Also in the next couple of pages I will

explain the impact of tourism of each site

The Geology Of The Isle Of Purbeck

The diagram of the geology of The Isle of Purbeck

The above diagram shows how the bays and headlands have been formed

due to the different types of rocks.

In the diagram you can see the tertiary sands, clay rocks and wealden

clay rocks are the less resistant rocks and the Portland and Purbeck

limestone is the resistant rock. Therefore when the waves hit the

coast the resistant rocks; tertiary sands, clay rocks and wealden clay

rocks will not erode, whereas the less resistant ones will, as they

are more softer and are not as hard and strong enough like the others.

Which rocks make up The Isle of Purbeck?

§ Portland limestone

§ Chalk

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