The Sea-coast: 1. Destruction, 2. Littoral Drift, 3. ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1902 - 361 páginas |
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... known , and these and numerous other seaside resorts are becoming developed , the importance of works for protecting the sea - fronts and the esplanades is realized as being a matter of urgent necessity . The geological character of the ...
... known , and these and numerous other seaside resorts are becoming developed , the importance of works for protecting the sea - fronts and the esplanades is realized as being a matter of urgent necessity . The geological character of the ...
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... known to break during very heavy gales , and when the fetch is very extended , in depths considerably greater than their height . As illustrating the effect of the shoaling of the water in changing oscillating to breaking waves , the ...
... known to break during very heavy gales , and when the fetch is very extended , in depths considerably greater than their height . As illustrating the effect of the shoaling of the water in changing oscillating to breaking waves , the ...
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... known that there is a movement at the bottom of the deep - water channels that intersect the sands lying off the shore , but the sand is only drifted backwards and forwards with the flood and ebb tide . When there is considerable wave ...
... known that there is a movement at the bottom of the deep - water channels that intersect the sands lying off the shore , but the sand is only drifted backwards and forwards with the flood and ebb tide . When there is considerable wave ...
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... , the water due to a rise of tide on the foreshore of only 7 or 8 feet has been known to strike the wall with such force as to be thrown upwards 100 feet . CHAPTER III . LITTORAL DRIFT . THE term " littoral THE ACTION OF SHORE WAVES . 21.
... , the water due to a rise of tide on the foreshore of only 7 or 8 feet has been known to strike the wall with such force as to be thrown upwards 100 feet . CHAPTER III . LITTORAL DRIFT . THE term " littoral THE ACTION OF SHORE WAVES . 21.
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... known as the Chesil 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 ...
... known as the Chesil 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 ...
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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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