The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1903 - 361 páginas |
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... coast - line . Also , in designing works of coast protection , the fact must not be lost sight of that both on shingle and sand beaches the only material that can be collected and accumulated is that which is already on the coast or is ...
... coast - line . Also , in designing works of coast protection , the fact must not be lost sight of that both on shingle and sand beaches the only material that can be collected and accumulated is that which is already on the coast or is ...
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... line , yet the particles of water below the rear wave have a certain amount of translatory movement due to the effect which the shoaling of the bed has on the water below the wave's orbit . This horizontal motion of the particles below ...
... line , yet the particles of water below the rear wave have a certain amount of translatory movement due to the effect which the shoaling of the bed has on the water below the wave's orbit . This horizontal motion of the particles below ...
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... coast - line at all comparable to the formation of these sand - beds . On the East Coast , the Wash covers an area of about 157,600 acres , of which about 84,000 acres consist of sand - beds , dry at low water , the average thickness of ...
... coast - line at all comparable to the formation of these sand - beds . On the East Coast , the Wash covers an area of about 157,600 acres , of which about 84,000 acres consist of sand - beds , dry at low water , the average thickness of ...
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... line of low water , but in cases where groynes or harbours project out from the shore . Numerous examples of this will be found recorded in Chapter VII . The slope of a beach where the quantity of shingle is not abundant , and where it ...
... line of low water , but in cases where groynes or harbours project out from the shore . Numerous examples of this will be found recorded in Chapter VII . The slope of a beach where the quantity of shingle is not abundant , and where it ...
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... coast - line . On the west coast of France , in the Bay of Audierne , Finisterre , there is a bank of shingle of a curved form 8 miles long , which extends in a southerly direction from the rocks in the middle of the bay at Penhors to ...
... coast - line . On the west coast of France , in the Bay of Audierne , Finisterre , there is a bank of shingle of a curved form 8 miles long , which extends in a southerly direction from the rocks in the middle of the bay at Penhors to ...
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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