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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... shingle , sand , and alluvium . The two former , in course of time . under the action of the waves , become reduced to shingle , and this finally to sand of varying degrees of fineness . This material is sorted by wave - action , the ...
... shingle , sand , and alluvium . The two former , in course of time . under the action of the waves , become reduced to shingle , and this finally to sand of varying degrees of fineness . This material is sorted by wave - action , the ...
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... shingle to the leeward of this bank . The cliffs to the windward consist of drift , containing a limited supply of gravel , the waste of which does no more at the present time than supply the wear and tear of the wave - action on the ...
... shingle to the leeward of this bank . The cliffs to the windward consist of drift , containing a limited supply of gravel , the waste of which does no more at the present time than supply the wear and tear of the wave - action on the ...
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... shingle at Aldborough and . Weybourne , each several miles in - length , can have accumulated from any waste of adjacent cliffs now going on . The present source of supply is derived almost entirely from the waste of the cliffs , and ...
... shingle at Aldborough and . Weybourne , each several miles in - length , can have accumulated from any waste of adjacent cliffs now going on . The present source of supply is derived almost entirely from the waste of the cliffs , and ...
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... shingle are found below low water , these permanently retain their position , and the stones of which these banks are composed are not washed on shore . As an example of this , reference may be made to the large bed of shingle known as ...
... shingle are found below low water , these permanently retain their position , and the stones of which these banks are composed are not washed on shore . As an example of this , reference may be made to the large bed of shingle known as ...
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... shingle for road- mending and concrete so denuded the beach at Spurn Point as to threaten its safety . The taking of the shingle was stopped , and the beach again accumulated , and the erosion of the cliffs diminished one - half . The ...
... shingle for road- mending and concrete so denuded the beach at Spurn Point as to threaten its safety . The taking of the shingle was stopped , and the beach again accumulated , and the erosion of the cliffs diminished one - half . The ...
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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 239 - They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the sun and moon upon the shore; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife and slave; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barren foam. Then some one said, "We will return no more...
Página 16 - When there is considerable wave motion on the surface of the sea, at a depth at which divers are able to work the water is found to be motionless.
Página 63 - ... very light clayey matter contained in river silt under favourable conditions, there are no grounds for regarding it as exercising the very preponderating influence on the formation of deltas attributed to it by geologists.
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...