The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction (2) Littoral Drift (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 361 páginas This title deals with the effects of erosion and littoral drift on the English and continental coast-lines bordering the North Sea, and outlines protective measures including sea-walls and groynes. |
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... Head - Sidmouth- Beer Head and Seaton - Axmouth - Landslip at Axmouth - Lyme Regis to Burton Bradstock - The Chesil Bank - Portland Bill to Christchurch -The Island of Portland - Weymouth - Redcliffe Point to Swanage- Swanage - Poole ...
... Head - Sidmouth- Beer Head and Seaton - Axmouth - Landslip at Axmouth - Lyme Regis to Burton Bradstock - The Chesil Bank - Portland Bill to Christchurch -The Island of Portland - Weymouth - Redcliffe Point to Swanage- Swanage - Poole ...
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... resisting material . On the east coast the cliffs extending from Flamborough Head to the Thames consist almost entirely of glacial drift or di B alluvial deposit , and consequently are subject to constant erosion CHAPTER INTRODUCTION.
... resisting material . On the east coast the cliffs extending from Flamborough Head to the Thames consist almost entirely of glacial drift or di B alluvial deposit , and consequently are subject to constant erosion CHAPTER INTRODUCTION.
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... head there is a quay wall resting on a rock base about 2 feet above low water . At a short distance from the wall the rock bed dips , the depth of the water increasing to about 30 feet ; there is then a ledge of rocks 160 feet from the ...
... head there is a quay wall resting on a rock base about 2 feet above low water . At a short distance from the wall the rock bed dips , the depth of the water increasing to about 30 feet ; there is then a ledge of rocks 160 feet from the ...
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... head of 5 feet , as 18 feet a second ; the weight of the water in movement , for 1 foot in width , would be— 30 × 1 × 5 × 64 = 9600 lbs . = 4.27 tons The kinetic energy would be the product of 4-27 tons falling from a height of 5 feet ...
... head of 5 feet , as 18 feet a second ; the weight of the water in movement , for 1 foot in width , would be— 30 × 1 × 5 × 64 = 9600 lbs . = 4.27 tons The kinetic energy would be the product of 4-27 tons falling from a height of 5 feet ...
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... Head beach , where , during a violent storm , a quantity of boulders , estimated at 10 tons , were cast up on to the beach over the length of a quarter of a mile . An example of the way in which shingle may be derived from the sea - bed ...
... Head beach , where , during a violent storm , a quantity of boulders , estimated at 10 tons , were cast up on to the beach over the length of a quarter of a mile . An example of the way in which shingle may be derived from the sea - bed ...
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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 acres alluvium angle bank of shingle basalt beach in front beach material Blackpool boulder clay boulders Bridlington Burton Bradstock carried chalk chalk cliffs channel chert clay coast coast-line composed concrete considerable constructed denudation deposited depth derived direction distance dunes east effect entrance erected erosion estuary extends face feet high Felixstowe flints flood tide foot gravel groynes harbour headland heavy gales height 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 Morecambe Bay on-shore gales pebbles pier piles placed planking promenade protection quantity quartzite rise river rocks sand and shingle sand-hills sandstone sandy beach sea-wall seaward shingle and sand shingle-bank shore slope spit spring tides Spurn Point stones surface tidal timber varying wall washed waves breaking width wind Withernsea yards wide
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Página 152 - Chisil is such, that as often as the wind bloweth strene, at south-est, so often the se betith it, and losith the bank, and breaketh it thorough it. So that if this might continually blow there, this bank should sone be beten away, and the se fully enter, and devide Portland making it an isle, as surely in tymes past it hath beene, as far as I can by any conjecture gather.
Página vii - Engineer in 1899, and is reprinted here with the permission of the editor of that...
Página 280 - Hastings the formations are as much as 200 feet higher on the north than on the south side of the river, whereas at Nininger, which is three miles to the northwest, they are higher south of the river.
Página 11 - Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave, Heard in dead night along that table shore, Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...
Página 100 - The wall is 3J/2 miles long, 16 feet wide at the base and 5 feet at the top, which is 17 feet above low tide. The base is protected by granite blocks, extending out 27 feet into the Gulf. The concrete wall is reinforced by steel rods 9 feet long, set obliquely. In the construction of this sea wall, 150,000 tons of concrete, containing over 140,000 barrels of cement, were used...