The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1903 - 361 páginas |
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... Alluvium -Settlement of solid matter in salt and fresh water - Direction of travel -Transporting agency - Tidal shore waves affecting CHAPTER IV . SEA - WALLS . General description of sea - walls - Upright walls - Curved walls - Walls ...
... Alluvium -Settlement of solid matter in salt and fresh water - Direction of travel -Transporting agency - Tidal shore waves affecting CHAPTER IV . SEA - WALLS . General description of sea - walls - Upright walls - Curved walls - Walls ...
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... alluvium . The two former , in course of time under the action of the waves , become reduced to shingle , and this finally to sand of varying degrees of fineness . This material is sorted by wave - action , the stones and pebbles being ...
... alluvium . The two former , in course of time under the action of the waves , become reduced to shingle , and this finally to sand of varying degrees of fineness . This material is sorted by wave - action , the stones and pebbles being ...
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... alluvium . The function of the tides consists in raising the water of the ocean sufficiently high to enable the waves to attack the cliffs ; in assisting the grinding up of the reduced rock - fragments by their perpetual oscillating ...
... alluvium . The function of the tides consists in raising the water of the ocean sufficiently high to enable the waves to attack the cliffs ; in assisting the grinding up of the reduced rock - fragments by their perpetual oscillating ...
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... water is only feebly agitated . Smaller grains than this come under the class of alluvium or mud . 1 66 Leçons de Géologie Pratique . " L. Elie de Beaumont . Paris , 1845 . Low , flat coasts , where there are no cliffs 40 THE SEA - COAST .
... water is only feebly agitated . Smaller grains than this come under the class of alluvium or mud . 1 66 Leçons de Géologie Pratique . " L. Elie de Beaumont . Paris , 1845 . Low , flat coasts , where there are no cliffs 40 THE SEA - COAST .
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... Alluvium consists of detritus eroded from the cliffs or brought down the rivers in suspension , and consists of the decomposition of material from rocks of many different kinds of which cliffs are composed , or through which the rivers ...
... Alluvium consists of detritus eroded from the cliffs or brought down the rivers in suspension , and consists of the decomposition of material from rocks of many different kinds of which cliffs are composed , or through which the rivers ...
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The Sea-coast: 1. Destruction, 2. Littoral Drift, 3. Protection William Henry Wheeler Vista completa - 1902 |
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12 feet 20 feet alluvium angle bank of shingle basalt beach in front beach material Blackpool boulder clay boulders Bridlington carried chalk chalk cliffs channel chert Clacton clay cliffs consist coast coast-line composed concrete considerable constructed covered with sand denudation deposited depth derived direction distance dunes entrance erected erosion estuary extends face fathoms feet high Felixstowe flints flood tide foot formed gravel groynes half a mile harbour headland heavy gales height high groynes high tides high water Humber inches in diameter inland jetty Kilnsea land length limestone littoral drift London Clay low groynes low water marshes mile wide on-shore gales pebbles pier piles placed planking promenade protection quantity quartzite rise river rocks sand and shingle sand-hills sandstone sandy sea-wall seaward shingle and sand shingle-bank shore slope spring tides Spurn Point stones surface tidal timber varying wall washed width wind Withernsea yards long yards wide