The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1903 - 361 páginas |
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... pier consisted also of a rubble mound foundation , on which was built an upright masonry wall , the depth at low water on the sea side being from 28 to 30 feet , the top of the rubble mound being 9 feet below low water , and the rise of ...
... pier consisted also of a rubble mound foundation , on which was built an upright masonry wall , the depth at low water on the sea side being from 28 to 30 feet , the top of the rubble mound being 9 feet below low water , and the rise of ...
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... piers , give a very much lower result than that shown by the above calculation . With waves 10 feet high , the mean pressure recorded was 1:36 ton per square foot , or about one - third of that given . Experiments carried out with a ...
... piers , give a very much lower result than that shown by the above calculation . With waves 10 feet high , the mean pressure recorded was 1:36 ton per square foot , or about one - third of that given . Experiments carried out with a ...
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... pier at Shoreham led to a stoppage of the shingle drifting to the east and the starving of the beaches in front of Hove and Brighton . The supply from the west has also been materially affected by the projection of Dungeness Point ...
... pier at Shoreham led to a stoppage of the shingle drifting to the east and the starving of the beaches in front of Hove and Brighton . The supply from the west has also been materially affected by the projection of Dungeness Point ...
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... Pier at Dover was built , which completely stopped all eastward drift , the beach along St. Margaret's Bay consequently becoming much denuded . The shingle derived from the waste of the boulder clay in the cliffs between Flamborough ...
... Pier at Dover was built , which completely stopped all eastward drift , the beach along St. Margaret's Bay consequently becoming much denuded . The shingle derived from the waste of the boulder clay in the cliffs between Flamborough ...
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... piers or groynes which extend across the shore , and the general outline of the beach remains as it always has been , so far as any record exists . On the north coast of France the chalk cliffs which run along the coast terminate at ...
... piers or groynes which extend across the shore , and the general outline of the beach remains as it always has been , so far as any record exists . On the north coast of France the chalk cliffs which run along the coast terminate at ...
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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