The Sea-coast: 1. Destruction, 2. Littoral Drift, 3. ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1902 - 361 páginas |
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... chalk cliffs at the east end of the English Channel ; and owing to the necessity of preserving the frontage of the seaside resorts , which abound here more than in any other part of England , the protective works have necessarily been ...
... chalk cliffs at the east end of the English Channel ; and owing to the necessity of preserving the frontage of the seaside resorts , which abound here more than in any other part of England , the protective works have necessarily been ...
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... chalk , leaving the steep cliffs which exist on both sides . M. Lamblardie , 1 in his treatise on the coasts of Normandy , estimated that about seven per cent . of the eroded cliffs consisted of flints , producing five billion cubic ...
... chalk , leaving the steep cliffs which exist on both sides . M. Lamblardie , 1 in his treatise on the coasts of Normandy , estimated that about seven per cent . of the eroded cliffs consisted of flints , producing five billion cubic ...
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... cliffs to the windward consist of drift , containing a limited supply of ... chalk which crops up at low water in a few places , there is not , over this ... chalk ; they are most of them rounded , but scarcely any have the flat oval ...
... cliffs to the windward consist of drift , containing a limited supply of ... chalk which crops up at low water in a few places , there is not , over this ... chalk ; they are most of them rounded , but scarcely any have the flat oval ...
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... chalk cliffs from 500 to 600 feet in height when the sea broke through the Solent passage , would lead to the deposit of a large quantity of flint and gravels , of which the accumulations at Hurst Castle and Selsea may ] probably be the ...
... chalk cliffs from 500 to 600 feet in height when the sea broke through the Solent passage , would lead to the deposit of a large quantity of flint and gravels , of which the accumulations at Hurst Castle and Selsea may ] probably be the ...
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... chalk containing large flints is exposed for some distance from the shore , and where flints are cast up on the beach ; in a lesser degree this is also the case on the Sussex coast near Lancing , where the chalk ... cliffs . The all ...
... chalk containing large flints is exposed for some distance from the shore , and where flints are cast up on the beach ; in a lesser degree this is also the case on the Sussex coast near Lancing , where the chalk ... cliffs . The all ...
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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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