Half-hours at the Sea-side; Or, Recreations with Marine ObjectsD. Bogue, 1880 - 266 páginas |
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... coast line , and adjusting its height to the geographical con- ditions it may meet with . How greatly these interfere with tidal effects may be seen by a consideration of the shapes and areas of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . Thus ...
... coast line , and adjusting its height to the geographical con- ditions it may meet with . How greatly these interfere with tidal effects may be seen by a consideration of the shapes and areas of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . Thus ...
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... coast - line are degraded with an almost inconceiv- able rapidity . Thus , the waste of the steeper parts of the Norfolk coast is reckoned at not less than three feet a year , and the coasts of Suffolk , Essex , York- shire , Hampshire ...
... coast - line are degraded with an almost inconceiv- able rapidity . Thus , the waste of the steeper parts of the Norfolk coast is reckoned at not less than three feet a year , and the coasts of Suffolk , Essex , York- shire , Hampshire ...
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... coast of Ireland often run forty and fifty feet in height . Further , it is known that the velocity imparted to waves frequently attains the rate of a mile a minute . Single and unbroken waves have been observed coming in at this rate ...
... coast of Ireland often run forty and fifty feet in height . Further , it is known that the velocity imparted to waves frequently attains the rate of a mile a minute . Single and unbroken waves have been observed coming in at this rate ...
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... coasts , a north - west gale will strip off , in a single night , a deposit , twenty feet thick , of sand which has been accumulating for months . So much for the mechanical force of the waves , borrowed in the open sea , far away from ...
... coasts , a north - west gale will strip off , in a single night , a deposit , twenty feet thick , of sand which has been accumulating for months . So much for the mechanical force of the waves , borrowed in the open sea , far away from ...
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... coast - line , and a hundred other disturb- ing elements , come in to produce a surprising variation , but the general and intended result is the same , nevertheless . Of all these currents , perhaps none is better known than the " Gulf ...
... coast - line , and a hundred other disturb- ing elements , come in to produce a surprising variation , but the general and intended result is the same , nevertheless . Of all these currents , perhaps none is better known than the " Gulf ...
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Half-hours at the Sea-side, Or, Recreations with Marine Objects John Ellor Taylor Vista completa - 1907 |
Half-hours at the Sea-side: Or, Recreations with Marine Objects John Ellor Taylor Vista completa - 1872 |
Half-hours at the Sea-side ; Or, Recreations with Marine Objects John Ellor Taylor Vista completa - 1901 |
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