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To investigate the effects of coastal management, and to investigate the effects of longshore drift.
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... Year 11 G.C.S.E Geography Coursework (Umar Sheikh 11GS) Aim: 1. To investigate the effects of coastal management. 2. To investigate the effects of longshore drift. Introduction This coursework is on the fieldtrip to Somerset, Nettlecombe to investigate the effects of coastal management and longshore drift. Porlock Bay is in the south west of England just below Wales. This course work is mainly on the coastal processes and management which deals with the protection of land from the sea. As we went to Somerset we did field work to collect data on longshore drift to investigate its effects. We explored longshore drift along the coastline of Porlock Bay in Somerset. Coastal management is important in this area because of longshore drift. Longshore drift is transport along the coast when waves move material across a beach; we will go over longshore drift in more detail later. Longshore drift causes one part of a coastline to














