The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1903 - 361 páginas |
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... Timber walls CHAPTER V. EXAMPLES OF SEA - WALLS . Hove Scarborough - Westgate - Bognor - Clacton - Southend - Bridlington -Blackpool - Dymchurch - Herne Bay - Felixstowe - Morecambe Bay- Clontarf Trusthorpe - Belgium and Holland ...
... Timber walls CHAPTER V. EXAMPLES OF SEA - WALLS . Hove Scarborough - Westgate - Bognor - Clacton - Southend - Bridlington -Blackpool - Dymchurch - Herne Bay - Felixstowe - Morecambe Bay- Clontarf Trusthorpe - Belgium and Holland ...
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... timber and from its resinous products , on the sands is the Pinus maritima . The sea lyme - grass ( Elymus arenarius ) was also planted . The seed pines acquired a height of 15 to 16 feet at the end of four or five years . About 200,000 ...
... timber and from its resinous products , on the sands is the Pinus maritima . The sea lyme - grass ( Elymus arenarius ) was also planted . The seed pines acquired a height of 15 to 16 feet at the end of four or five years . About 200,000 ...
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... timber in the forests on the west coast of Jutland , by removing the resistance to the lower currents of the westerly winds , led to the moving inland of the sand - dunes and the burying of the cultivated land with sand , and as the ...
... timber in the forests on the west coast of Jutland , by removing the resistance to the lower currents of the westerly winds , led to the moving inland of the sand - dunes and the burying of the cultivated land with sand , and as the ...
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... timber wall constructed by the Sea Defence Commissioners between Clacton and Walton , when built in 1889 , was 6 feet above the beach , the piles being driven into hard clay . Within ten years after its construction the beach was ...
... timber wall constructed by the Sea Defence Commissioners between Clacton and Walton , when built in 1889 , was 6 feet above the beach , the piles being driven into hard clay . Within ten years after its construction the beach was ...
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... Timber Walls . For mere protective purposes , and where economy of outlay is a consideration , sea - walls may in some cases with advantage be constructed of timber . Ten feet may be taken as the greatest height to which such walls ...
... Timber Walls . For mere protective purposes , and where economy of outlay is a consideration , sea - walls may in some cases with advantage be constructed of timber . Ten feet may be taken as the greatest height to which such walls ...
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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