The Sea-coast: 1. Destruction, 2. Littoral Drift, 3. ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1902 - 361 páginas |
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... Bank - Portland Bill to Christchurch -The Island of Portland - Weymouth - Redcliffe Point to Swanage- Swanage - Poole - Bournemouth Bay - Christchurch to Selsea Bill - Hurst shingle - bank - The Solent - Chichester Harbour - The Isle of ...
... Bank - Portland Bill to Christchurch -The Island of Portland - Weymouth - Redcliffe Point to Swanage- Swanage - Poole - Bournemouth Bay - Christchurch to Selsea Bill - Hurst shingle - bank - The Solent - Chichester Harbour - The Isle of ...
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... BANK 146 25. POOLE HARBOUR AND SAND - HILLS 26. THE SOLENT , AND HURST SHINGLE - BANK 27. GROYNES AT HOVE · 28. SEA - WALL , DYMCHURCH 29. GROYNES AT SANDGATE 159 163 187 201 206 xii FIG . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . 30. YORKSHIRE COAST PAGE.
... BANK 146 25. POOLE HARBOUR AND SAND - HILLS 26. THE SOLENT , AND HURST SHINGLE - BANK 27. GROYNES AT HOVE · 28. SEA - WALL , DYMCHURCH 29. GROYNES AT SANDGATE 159 163 187 201 206 xii FIG . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . 30. YORKSHIRE COAST PAGE.
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... Bank , and was carried by a wave and cast on the top of the bank at a place where it was more than 30 feet above ordinary high water . At Hove it was calculated that 27,000 tons of shingle were removed from the beach in a heavy gale ...
... Bank , and was carried by a wave and cast on the top of the bank at a place where it was more than 30 feet above ordinary high water . At Hove it was calculated that 27,000 tons of shingle were removed from the beach in a heavy gale ...
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... Bank , extending 103 miles from Abbotsbury to Portland , must have been accomplished under conditions very different to those which now exist . The drift along this part of the coast is eastward , and the cliffs to the west consist ...
... Bank , extending 103 miles from Abbotsbury to Portland , must have been accomplished under conditions very different to those which now exist . The drift along this part of the coast is eastward , and the cliffs to the west consist ...
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... bank has remained unchanged since then . There is no drift of 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 ...
... bank has remained unchanged since then . There is no drift of 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 ...
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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 clay coast coast-line composed concrete considerable constructed Crown 8vo 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 Illustrations inches in diameter island 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 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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