G day minus 27... the grains of sand are slipping through and time is running out!
However, as we have been completing what is absolutely the last topic of the Higher Geography course - sand dune succession - I am reminded of some very good materials on psammoseres which you might like to take a look at. They are produced by Liverpool Hope University and describe the well developed sand dune system at Sefton bay near Liverpool (click on the banner to link). You will find information about the origin and development of the dune system but more importantly, if you look at the side panel at the left, you can follow the sucession in photo and description from the strand line inland .
There are also two posters on sand dune succession which have been produced by the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen in conjunction with a teacher consultant (modesty prevents me from telling you which particular teacher consultant!) As with their soil posters which I flagged up in earlier postings here and here , you can download coloured A4 size versions to add to your notes.
Click on the banner to link to the first poster and then here for the second one.
And finally, a luxuriant community of annual plants and Sea Lyme grass growing on the foreshore at Tentsmuir...... first stage of the succession..
