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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... Further west there is a less waste , the cliffs of Devonshire and Cornwall being composed of harder and more resisting material . On the east coast the cliffs extending from Flamborough Head to the Thames consist almost entirely of ...
... Further west there is a less waste , the cliffs of Devonshire and Cornwall being composed of harder and more resisting material . On the east coast the cliffs extending from Flamborough Head to the Thames consist almost entirely of ...
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... further removal ( Attorney - General v . Tomline ) . The removal of shingle from Spurn Point was prohibited by the Board of Trade . The question that deserves consideration is as to how far an owner of any particular length of coast is ...
... further removal ( Attorney - General v . Tomline ) . The removal of shingle from Spurn Point was prohibited by the Board of Trade . The question that deserves consideration is as to how far an owner of any particular length of coast is ...
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... further increased by the impetus of the waves . Hence the surface of the water forms a slope upwards towards the shore , causing an under - current towards the sea , which has considerable effect in pulling beaches down and conveying ...
... further increased by the impetus of the waves . Hence the surface of the water forms a slope upwards towards the shore , causing an under - current towards the sea , which has considerable effect in pulling beaches down and conveying ...
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... Further information as to the action of waves on seawalls will be found in The Designing and Construction of Harbours , " by T. Stevenson . Edinburgh , 1874. " Harbours and Docks , " by L. F. Vernon - Harcourt . London , 1885 . 2 ...
... Further information as to the action of waves on seawalls will be found in The Designing and Construction of Harbours , " by T. Stevenson . Edinburgh , 1874. " Harbours and Docks , " by L. F. Vernon - Harcourt . London , 1885 . 2 ...
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... further to the northward . On more than one occasion at Plymouth during the construc- tion of the breakwater , large blocks of stone , some of them weighing 7 to 9 tons , were removed from the sea - slope of the breakwater at the level ...
... further to the northward . On more than one occasion at Plymouth during the construc- tion of the breakwater , large blocks of stone , some of them weighing 7 to 9 tons , were removed from the sea - slope of the breakwater at the level ...
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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 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...