Coasts and limestone - previous posts

Do not forget to look at previous posts on these topics - use the contents list at the bottom right of the main page. there are lots of photos of Durdle Door and Old Harry and his wife ! Follow the links to the excellent BBC web sites - they are well worth looking at as Geography teachers have been involved in writing the material.

Mud slides

There have been terrible mud slides in Messina in Sicily in the last few days the link below takes you to the BBC web site. We study this as part of our mass movement work at teh end fo teh lithosphere section of work.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8286538.stm

The second and third links are to articles which refer to the role of man in deforestation and developing buildings on the slopes
http://www.theage.com.au/world/20-dead-in-sicilian-mudslide-20091003-ggu0.html

http://www.euronews.net/2009/10/03/anger-grows-at-messina-mudslide-disaster/