{"id":13695,"date":"2020-02-07T14:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?post_type=case_study&#038;p=13695"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T14:30:43","slug":"oxwich-bay-gower-peninsula-south-wales-landslide-case-study","status":"publish","type":"case_study","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/case-studies\/oxwich-bay-gower-peninsula-south-wales-landslide-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxwich Bay, Gower Peninsula, South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"hero-section hero-section-with-social\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero-info-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Oxwich Bay, Gower Peninsula, South Wales<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Landslide case study<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"social-wrap social-wrap-inline-them\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Share this article<\/span><a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/case-studies\/oxwich-bay-gower-peninsula-south-wales-landslide-case-study\/\"><span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span class=\"hidden\">Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/a><a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Oxwich%20Bay,%20Gower%20Peninsula,%20South%20Wales&#038;url=https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/case-studies\/oxwich-bay-gower-peninsula-south-wales-landslide-case-study\/\"><span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span class=\"hidden\">Twitter<\/span><\/span><\/a><a   onclick=\"javascript:void( (function() {var e=document.createElement('script' );e.setAttribute('type','text\/javascript' );e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8' );e.setAttribute('src','\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());\"  href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><span class=\"icon-pinterest\"><span class=\"hidden\">Pinterest<\/span><\/span><\/a><a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"https:\/\/wa.me?text=https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/case-studies\/oxwich-bay-gower-peninsula-south-wales-landslide-case-study\/\"><span class=\"icon-whatsapp\"><span class=\"hidden\">WhatsApp<\/span><\/span><\/a><a   href=\"mailto:?subject=Oxwich%20Bay,%20Gower%20Peninsula,%20South%20Wales&#038;body=%20(https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/case-studies\/oxwich-bay-gower-peninsula-south-wales-landslide-case-study\/)\"><span class=\"icon-mail\"><span class=\"hidden\">Email<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"#\" data-copy=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/case-studies\/oxwich-bay-gower-peninsula-south-wales-landslide-case-study\/\" class=\"copy-url-on-click\"><span class=\"icon-link\"><span class=\"hidden\">Copy Link<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-bgs-blocks-content-container content-section\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<p>On the weekend of 19\u201320 December 2009, a rockfall occurred in Oxwich Bay on the southern coast of the Gower Peninsula, South Wales. The rockfall occurred after a prolonged period of freezing temperatures and high rainfall in the preceding months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oxwich Bay landslide lies on the northern slope of Oxwich Point, 12 miles to the west of Swansea. The northern slope of the headland is covered in ancient, broadleaf woodland. The landslide was first reported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Wales Evening Post<\/a> on 22 December 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BGS Landslide Response Team undertook a brief survey of the landslide on 1 January 2010 to investigate the failure. Information was collected for the BGS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/geology-projects\/landslides\/national-landslide-database\/\">National Landslide Database<\/a> and geological maps. This landslide is National Landslide Database ID 17649\/1.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure  class=\"img-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/oxwichBay-location-150x150.jpg\" class=\"lazy-blur\" alt=\"Oxwich Bay, Gower Peninsula location map.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/oxwichBay-location.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption sm-line\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/bgs\/img\/info-caption.svg\" alt=\"Information icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-text\"><p>Oxwich Bay, Gower Peninsula, location map. BGS \u00a9 UKRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Geology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oxwich Bay area is underlain by the <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.bgs.ac.uk\/lexicon\/lexicon.cfm?pub=OHL\">Oxwich Head Limestone Formation<\/a>, which consists of thickly bedded, fine- to coarse-grained, recrystallised, grey, mottled, skeletal packstones (Howells, 2007). At the site of the rockfall, the beds dip at approximately 20\u00b0 towards the north-east. Oxwich Point forms the southern limb of the Oxwich syncline. The Oxwich Head Limestone was extensively quarried along Oxwich Point and exported from the old port of Oxwich to Devon, where it was burnt and used as agricultural lime, up until the end of the 19th century. Many of the cottages in the village used to house the quarry workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The landslide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oxwich Bay landslide occurred within a disused quarry when blocks of limestone dislodged from the old working face at the back of the quarry. Failure of the blocks occurred along fractures within the limestone. It is most likely that water penetrated into these fractures and, during periods of cold weather, froze and expanded (by approximately 9 per cent (Norikazu, 1990)), increasing the pressure in the fracture and causing the rock to fail. This process is known as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weathering#Frost_disintegration\" target=\"_blank\">freeze\u2013thaw<\/a> weathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evidence of previous rockfall activity is present in the form of weathered boulders of limestone (known locally as &#8216;The Dices&#8217;) on the foreshore in the immediate vicinity of the December 2009 landslide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"owl-carousel carousel-primary-color carousel owl-theme thumbs-carousel-js\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"item\"><figure  class=\"img-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/oxwich_feature_P761507.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Close-up view of the Oxwich Bay landslide.\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption sm-line\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/bgs\/img\/info-caption.svg\" alt=\"Information icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-text\"><p>Close-up view of the Oxwich Bay landslide. BGS \u00a9 UKRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"item\"><figure  class=\"img-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/oxwichBay2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Map of the bedrock geology in the area of the Oxwich Bay landslide.\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/bgs\/img\/info-caption.svg\" alt=\"Information icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-text\"><p>Map of the bedrock geology in the area of the Oxwich Bay landslide. BGS \u00a9 UKRI. Contains Ordnance Survey data \u00a9 Crown Copyright.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"item\"><figure  class=\"img-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/P761505.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"The Oxwich Bay landslide. Note geologist for scale with &#039; The Dices&#039; in the foreground.\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/bgs\/img\/info-caption.svg\" alt=\"Information icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-text\"><p>The Oxwich Bay landslide. Note geologist for scale with The Dices in the foreground. BGS \u00a9 UKRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"item\"><figure  class=\"img-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/P761506.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Close up view of Oxwich Bay landslide with &#039; The Dices.\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption sm-line\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/bgs\/img\/info-caption.svg\" alt=\"Information icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-text\"><p>Close-up view of Oxwich Bay landslide with The Dices. BGS \u00a9 UKRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"item\"><figure  class=\"img-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/P761508.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Wide angle view of the Oxwich Bay landslide showing its position within a disused limestone quarry.\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/bgs\/img\/info-caption.svg\" alt=\"Information icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption-text\"><p>Wide-angle view of the Oxwich Bay landslide showing its position within a disused limestone quarry. BGS \u00a9 UKRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"cta-section  sea-background-e \">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row md-row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Contact the Landslide Response Team<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<div>Tel: 0115 936 3143     Email: landslides@bgs.ac.uk   <\/div>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"btn-wrap\"><a href=\"mailto:landslides@bgs.ac.uk\"  class=\"button primary-background   \">Contact us<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<section   id=\"latest-content-3758-block_5efc3d3507b5f\" class=\"grid-section  primary-background   \" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row header-of-section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>You may also be interested in<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row grid-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-12\">\n\t<div class=\"cards cards-orizontal-sm  cards-find-more  cards-bordered\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/geology-projects\/landslides\/landslide-case-studies\/\" class=\"media-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pennington_feature_P761259-150x150.jpg\" class=\"lazy-blur wp-post-image\" alt=\"fall at Pennington Point. 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