Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Rocks, Resources
and Scenery
- Types of Rock
- Igneous
- Molten THEN Harden
- Intrusive/Granite
- Extrusive/Basalt
- Sedimentary
- Layers Sediment compacted
- Solid Rock
- Metamorpic
- Heat and pressure
- Rock Cycle
- Picture/List
- Long time rocks
to form
- Weathering
- Breakdown of rocks where
they are
- Chemical
- Changing chemical
Composition
- Solution
- Carbonation
- Biological
- Plants and animals
- (Plants) its roots
- (animals) Burrowing
- Mechanical
- Physical (BREAK DOWN)
- Freeze thaw (Diagram)
- Exfoliation (Diagram)
- Rocks and landscapes
- Granite landscapes
- they have tors and moorland
- Granite is impermeable which
creates moorlands
- Large areas of water logged and
acidic soil and low growing vegatation
- Chalk and Clay Landscapes
- you have escarpments
and vales.
- Chalk is a aquifer-permeable rock
that stores water.
- Carbon iferous limestone
- you get limestone pavements, swallow
holes, caverns, gorges.
- limestone is permeable and water
seeping through limestone contains
dissolved minerals,
- when is solidifies over time it
produces stalactites and
stalagmites
- Whatley Quarry Somerset
- Advantages
- The quarry employees a lot of
people, around 100 people full time
- It has a study centre around
4,000 people visit every year
- The quarry has donated stone to
build a cycle track in the local area
- Disadvantages
- Each blast removes 25,000 tons of rock and this creates a
lot of noise and disrupts wildlife
- The quarry is around 1.5km long and
0.6km wide and its destroyed a large area
of habitat
- A man was killed in an industrial accident in 2008