The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1903 - 361 páginas |
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... water which prevails on coasts , and as to the manner in which they act on a beach or sea - wall . Although the ... high spring tides , when accompanied by heavy on - shore gales . The height to which the water rises above the beach is ...
... water which prevails on coasts , and as to the manner in which they act on a beach or sea - wall . Although the ... high spring tides , when accompanied by heavy on - shore gales . The height to which the water rises above the beach is ...
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... water of considerable depth is due to tidal currents , and not to wave - action . A column of water several fathoms ... high water . At Brighton it is recorded that in south - west gales the shingle has been thrown on to the road 18 feet ...
... water of considerable depth is due to tidal currents , and not to wave - action . A column of water several fathoms ... high water . At Brighton it is recorded that in south - west gales the shingle has been thrown on to the road 18 feet ...
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... high water . At Hove it was calculated that 27,000 tons of shingle were removed from the beach in a heavy gale during one set of spring tides , and that 10,000 tons were drifted along the beach in two tides on another occasion . In the ...
... high water . At Hove it was calculated that 27,000 tons of shingle were removed from the beach in a heavy gale during one set of spring tides , and that 10,000 tons were drifted along the beach in two tides on another occasion . In the ...
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... water on the face of the beach , which has a material effect in its disintegration . When the waves strike a cliff ... high water , during a heavy gale in the winter of 1898 the broken water was thrown as high as the top of a large hotel ...
... water on the face of the beach , which has a material effect in its disintegration . When the waves strike a cliff ... high water , during a heavy gale in the winter of 1898 the broken water was thrown as high as the top of a large hotel ...
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... tides , and to disperse material when , under tidal influence , it has collected in large quantities . By the beating of the waves on the cliffs at high water in gales and storms , large masses of rock are dislodged , the fragments thus ...
... tides , and to disperse material when , under tidal influence , it has collected in large quantities . By the beating of the waves on the cliffs at high water in gales and storms , large masses of rock are dislodged , the fragments thus ...
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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