The Sea-coast: 1. Destruction, 2. Littoral Drift, 3. ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1902 - 361 páginas |
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... nearly three times that which has been sanctioned by the Local Govern- ment Board for works of this character . The proposal to add to the taxation of agricultural land in order to provide for the doubtful contingency of its being ...
... nearly three times that which has been sanctioned by the Local Govern- ment Board for works of this character . The proposal to add to the taxation of agricultural land in order to provide for the doubtful contingency of its being ...
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... nearly vertical , to a height of from 25 to 30 feet . From experiments made at Cherbourg during the construction of the breakwater , it was found that the force of the waves in storms varied from 3000 to 4000 kilogrammes per square ...
... nearly vertical , to a height of from 25 to 30 feet . From experiments made at Cherbourg during the construction of the breakwater , it was found that the force of the waves in storms varied from 3000 to 4000 kilogrammes per square ...
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... nearly straight coast , the greater part of which is entirely devoid of cliffs , the remainder , being bordered by low mounds of sand and clay , devoid of anything that can afford a supply of beach material . West of Selsea Bill are ...
... nearly straight coast , the greater part of which is entirely devoid of cliffs , the remainder , being bordered by low mounds of sand and clay , devoid of anything that can afford a supply of beach material . West of Selsea Bill are ...
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... nearly a mile in width , and are from 50 to 80 feet in height ; and along Belgium from 1500 to 2000 feet in width , and from 50 to 60 feet in height , the highest being over 130 feet above sea level . Holland depends almost entirely for ...
... nearly a mile in width , and are from 50 to 80 feet in height ; and along Belgium from 1500 to 2000 feet in width , and from 50 to 60 feet in height , the highest being over 130 feet above sea level . Holland depends almost entirely for ...
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... nearly 7 miles and a depth of 130 feet , the bottom being 80 feet below sea - level . Over a length of 100 miles between the mouth of the Gironde and Mimizan , in the Bay of Arcachon , there are only two places where the water draining ...
... nearly 7 miles and a depth of 130 feet , the bottom being 80 feet below sea - level . Over a length of 100 miles between the mouth of the Gironde and Mimizan , in the Bay of Arcachon , there are only two places where the water draining ...
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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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