The Sea-coast: (1) Destruction (2) Littoral Drift (3) ProtectionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 361 páginas This title deals with the effects of erosion and littoral drift on the English and continental coast-lines bordering the North Sea, and outlines protective measures including sea-walls and groynes. |
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... beach made in 1833 and 1870 shows that there has been no material alteration in the form of the beach . The Dutch coast is bordered by a sand - beach from 100 to 150 yards in width , sloping seaward at an angle of 1 in 70 . Careful ...
... beach made in 1833 and 1870 shows that there has been no material alteration in the form of the beach . The Dutch coast is bordered by a sand - beach from 100 to 150 yards in width , sloping seaward at an angle of 1 in 70 . Careful ...
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... sand - spits . The best known of these is Sandy Hook , at the entrance to the ... Sandy Hook on the one side of the entrance , and Coney Island on the other ... Beach Protection and Jetty Reaction , " Transactions of the American Society ...
... sand - spits . The best known of these is Sandy Hook , at the entrance to the ... Sandy Hook on the one side of the entrance , and Coney Island on the other ... Beach Protection and Jetty Reaction , " Transactions of the American Society ...
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... sand is so continuous , and the lagoons which it shelters so connected , that a ... beach of sand , enclosing a lagoon of an area of 1500 square miles . This ... sandy estuaries . " 1 A further lesson to be learnt is that a single pier ...
... sand is so continuous , and the lagoons which it shelters so connected , that a ... beach of sand , enclosing a lagoon of an area of 1500 square miles . This ... sandy estuaries . " 1 A further lesson to be learnt is that a single pier ...
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... sand - spits trend in this direction , and there is no instance of two spits running out at right angles to the ... sandy , exposed shores are frequently bordered by mounds of sand blown off the beach by the winds , known as " dunes ...
... sand - spits trend in this direction , and there is no instance of two spits running out at right angles to the ... sandy , exposed shores are frequently bordered by mounds of sand blown off the beach by the winds , known as " dunes ...
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... sand . In the island of Bermuda , which is composed of coral and shell fragments , the shell sand blown from the beach ... sandy plain.1 The removal of existing forests near the coast has in some places had a disastrous effect on the country ...
... sand . In the island of Bermuda , which is composed of coral and shell fragments , the shell sand blown from the beach ... sandy plain.1 The removal of existing forests near the coast has in some places had a disastrous effect on the country ...
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The Sea-coast: 1. Destruction, 2. Littoral Drift, 3. Protection William Henry Wheeler Vista completa - 1902 |
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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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