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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... seaward , and estuaries have become dry land , long ages ago ; whereas the degradation of the coasts and the encroachment of the sea on the land is a well - known fact ; and , so far as any historical records exist , estuaries , except ...
... seaward , and estuaries have become dry land , long ages ago ; whereas the degradation of the coasts and the encroachment of the sea on the land is a well - known fact ; and , so far as any historical records exist , estuaries , except ...
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... seaward movement by their undertow . It is due to the seaward action of the undertow of the waves that bays and indents along the coast are kept open and free from accumulation of deposit . It is true that stones and other substances of ...
... seaward movement by their undertow . It is due to the seaward action of the undertow of the waves that bays and indents along the coast are kept open and free from accumulation of deposit . It is true that stones and other substances of ...
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... seaward at an angle of 1 in 70 . Careful measurements have been made of this beach during the last half - century , which show that there has been a gradual wasting away , low - water line having advanced from 30 to 50 yards more inland ...
... seaward at an angle of 1 in 70 . Careful measurements have been made of this beach during the last half - century , which show that there has been a gradual wasting away , low - water line having advanced from 30 to 50 yards more inland ...
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... seaward side of large lagoons , the water in some of which is sufficiently deep to provide good harbours . In the Gulf of Mexico there are several examples of harbours protected by sand - spits . St. Joseph's Bay , which carries a depth ...
... seaward side of large lagoons , the water in some of which is sufficiently deep to provide good harbours . In the Gulf of Mexico there are several examples of harbours protected by sand - spits . St. Joseph's Bay , which carries a depth ...
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... seaward , and the toe of the slope made good when it has been cut out by storms . In heavy gales gullies are cut through the dunes , which rapidly increase in width and depth , and through which the water will be apt to run at high ...
... seaward , and the toe of the slope made good when it has been cut out by storms . In heavy gales gullies are cut through the dunes , which rapidly increase in width and depth , and through which the water will be apt to run at high ...
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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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