The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, 1903 - 361 páginas |
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... Spurn Point , the Colne near Brightlingsea , were all perfectly clear and contained no solid matter in suspension , except a few grains of fine sand . A very small amount of solid matter , if the particles are very minute , is ...
... Spurn Point , the Colne near Brightlingsea , were all perfectly clear and contained no solid matter in suspension , except a few grains of fine sand . A very small amount of solid matter , if the particles are very minute , is ...
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... Spurn Point , round which the flood tide sets with considerable velocity . Hurst shingle - bank extends out from the mainland across the entrance to the Solent for a distance of 4 miles , and is only pre- vented from joining the Isle of ...
... Spurn Point , round which the flood tide sets with considerable velocity . Hurst shingle - bank extends out from the mainland across the entrance to the Solent for a distance of 4 miles , and is only pre- vented from joining the Isle of ...
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... Spurn GRIMSBY Cleethorpe The figures denote the depth of the water at L.W. in fathome . The ATTONS show the set of the flood tide . 0 Nautical Donna Bank . Stone Nook Sandhaile ... Spurn Point . - The cliff - erosion 220 THE SEA - COAST .
... Spurn GRIMSBY Cleethorpe The figures denote the depth of the water at L.W. in fathome . The ATTONS show the set of the flood tide . 0 Nautical Donna Bank . Stone Nook Sandhaile ... Spurn Point . - The cliff - erosion 220 THE SEA - COAST .
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... Spurn Point . - The cliff - erosion along the Holderness coast of Yorkshire , extending from Bridlington to Kilnsea ... Head is a perpendicular cliff of hard chalk 120 to 130 feet high , forming a peninsula extending out from the regular ...
... Spurn Point . - The cliff - erosion along the Holderness coast of Yorkshire , extending from Bridlington to Kilnsea ... Head is a perpendicular cliff of hard chalk 120 to 130 feet high , forming a peninsula extending out from the regular ...
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... Spurn Point . The waste of the cliffs has been estimated at 2 miles since the time of the Romans , a mile of which ... Spurn Point to Flamborough Head , " Min . Proc . Inst . C.E. , vol . li . , 1878 . locality , and at the time when the ...
... Spurn Point . The waste of the cliffs has been estimated at 2 miles since the time of the Romans , a mile of which ... Spurn Point to Flamborough Head , " Min . Proc . Inst . C.E. , vol . li . , 1878 . locality , and at the time when the ...
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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 Clacton clay cliffs consist coast coast-line composed concrete considerable constructed covered with sand denudation deposited depth derived direction distance dunes entrance erected erosion estuary extends face fathoms feet high Felixstowe flints flood tide foot formed gravel groynes half a mile harbour headland heavy gales height high groynes high tides high water Humber inches in diameter inland jetty Kilnsea land length limestone littoral drift London Clay low groynes low water marshes mile wide 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 spring tides Spurn Point stones surface tidal timber varying wall washed width wind Withernsea yards long yards wide