Wave erosion drives the sea cliff landward creating a planar, gently seaward-dipping bedrock platform. |
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Some of it flowed landward towards the shore and into the deeper rip feeder channels. |
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Pelham used artillery brought by sea and within two days had battered down the bawn and the western landward side of the castle. |
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The connection with the SuIa Sgeir Fan is clearly marked by a re-entrant at the shelf edge, shown by the landward deviation of the 150 m isobath. |
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The area spans one-third of Scotland's landmass and one-eighth of landward Britain. |
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It was because of this close environmental unity instilled by the nature of their calling that they lacked landward interest. |
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The Atlantic, or passive, type has a stable continental block on the landward side that has been little deformed since Palaeozoic times. |
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But it will be sited on the landward side of the expected crack in the shelf, rather than on solid ground. |
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Besides, Guy's army could not begin to cut off supplies from the landward side. |
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The landward extent of the embayment fill abuts the western side of the Woakwine Range, a Pleistocene barrier. |
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This will allow the landward area behind to be filled in and used for the art gallery's extension. |
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On the landward side of the harbour, a series of wharves and porticoes were built to accommodate traders and the storage of goods in transit. |
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These natural buffers protected the landward side, sheltering coastal communities and wildlife from the brunt of storms and waves. |
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We now have a more reasonable definition of what the high-water mark is, and what the marine area is on the landward side. |
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Site 863 is located at the toe of the landward trench slope above the subducted Chile Ridge, just south of the Chile Triple Junction. |
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Steep profiles usually consist of a marked landward ridge, usually referred to as the berm, which forms the landward limit of wave swash. |
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The crest along low gravel barrier beaches was pushed 4 to 5 m landward and only localised changes occurred to back-barrier lagoon shores. |
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Most pieces of boardwalk were floated as much as 67 m landward of their original location. |
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The three landward sides of the square are surrounded by uniform buildings dating from the 18th century. |
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Engagement on the high seas occurs infrequently, and almost always because one side is moving to attack landward targets and the other is trying to prevent it. |
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Thus, Andean-type belts have a narrow belt of volcanoes and often a fold and thrust belt on their landward margin. |
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The air in this bulge then slides over the unexpanded air over the sea resulting in a pressure difference at sea level between the landward and seaward sides of the coast. |
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On the landward side it was now white-capped mountain ranges, ranks of huge mountains that joined with the chain running down the centre of the continent. |
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For example Sir Hal Colebatch's first major speech in the Senate, on November 22, 1929, had urged Australia to help fund completion of the base, including landward defences. |
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So, we settled for a leisurely snorkel on the landward edge of the main channel, with John swimming around us and aiming his spear gun at pretty much everything that moved. |
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Volcanoes typically lie 150 to 200 kilometres landward of deep-sea trenches, such as those that border much of the Pacific Basin. |
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When the beach was pushed landward just west of Line 3a, a large number of tree trunks became exposed in the intertidal zone. |
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The lack of opposition to the establishment of sea control has permitted the few large and powerful navies to reorient their focuses in a landward direction. |
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Internal waters are the waters landward of the baselines from which you draw your territorial waters. |
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One site on the landward side of the fjord was an almost vertical wall leading down to a ledge at 30m, where we were told we should find large sea spiders and basket stars. |
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It is overlain by the lower shale member, which consists of interbedded carbonaceous shale and lignite that accumulated in coastal marsh and swamps landward of the shoreline. |
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In Norfolk they are to be seen most regularly in the neighbourhood of Cley and Blakeney, on the landward slopes of shingle banks and on rough grassy ground behind. |
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If the water is shallow, it is easier to fill it with sediment and extend the backshore landward. |
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The landward extent of overwash is shown by the line of melted snow on the backshore. |
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We see an angler fish within a minute of reaching the bottom, many tompots under the plating, and wrasse and dragonets in the coarse sand to the landward side of the wreck. |
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Your village is small and remote, extremely difficult to reach because it is isolated from the world by the treacherous currents offshore and the high mountains landward. |
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Typically, the postglacial biotic migrations were much greater than just the distances landward from synglacial positions of the strandline directly offshore. |
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There are traces of earthen ramparts on the landward side, and remains of a structure which may have been a guard's cell. |
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The HWL is portrayed on aerial photographs by the most landward change in colour or grey tone. |
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For mainland areas, storm surge is more of a threat when the storm strikes land from seaward, rather than approaching from landward. |
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When coastal cities or fortresses were besieged from the landward side, the besiegers would often blockade the seaward side as well. |
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Over the long term, they fill up with sand and the embankments thus formed serve as breakwaters and reduce the erosive action of the water against the berm on the landward part of the beach. |
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Off Trial Islands, the landward boundary of the outbound lane of the traffic separation scheme is about one cable from the 10-metre depth contour. |
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The distance landward the stakes are established depends on how fast you think the cliff is retreating, and how often you will be resurveying the site. |
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Waters on the landward side of the straight baselines are considered internal waters, although a right of passage sometimes exists in such circumstances. |
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To establish the compass bearing of each survey line, stand at the landward marker of each line and face seaward to the location where you wish to measure the cliff edge. |
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The final outer limit of the continental shelf is constructed by choosing at each point the most landward line from the constraining and the formula lines. |
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Possible rising sea levels increase the likelihood of storm surges, augment the risk of coastal erosion and flooding, enforce landward intrusion of salt water and further endanger natural buffers such as wetlands. |
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The new crest had migrated a net distance of 11m landward from where it existed before the hurricane despite initially being pushed 14 m landward right after the hurricane. |
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By drawing the baselines around all the islands north of the Canadian mainland, Canada claimed the waters on the landward side of the baseline as internal waters. |
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Before the storm the power poles were landward of the beach. |
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A comparison of the photos confirm the rounding of the beach crest and the increased landward transfer of sediment which buried the vegetation and built up the backshore slope. |
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This temperature corresponds well with that estimated for the maximum depth of earthquakes in many continental areas, including the crustal earthquakes landward of the Cascadia subduction zone. |
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The seaward part of the eastern breach was submerged at high tide but the landward portion was built just high enough to prevent flooding during normal high tides. |
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In the case of a cliffed marsh edge, wave heights increase at the edge but are dissipated rapidly in the first 10-20m landward of the cliff. |
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In 1809 Labrador had been transferred from Lower Canada to Newfoundland, but the landward boundary of Labrador had never been precisely stated. |
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Where a parish contained a burgh, a separate landward parish was formed for the portion outside the town. |
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At the Waal, for example, the most landward tidal influence can be detected between Brakel and Zaltbommel. |
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Outside the town, low ground to the east and south is cut by ditches, which limit the landward approach to roads raised above ground level. |
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When Aden had become a crown colony in 1937, the main landward imports were qat, firewood and fodder. |
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The landward approaches would require considerable clearage of trees and an extensive trestle ramp. |
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This water is pushed downward and spreads along the bottom in both the seaward and landward direction. |
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The planning area extends seaward to the foot of the continental slope and on the landward boundary, which takes into consideration the importance of coastal watersheds. |
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Each link was stoutly resisted by persons who wished to leave the city unchanged, and they succeeded in forcing wheeled vehicles to be garaged at the landward edge of the island. |
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With the first dawn of the day, came heaving and hurrying landward. |
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The HWL represents the landward extent of the most recent high tide and is characterised by a change in sand colour due to repeated, periodic inundation by high tides. |
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Hence we may see the weakness and absurdity of that kind of jealousy and aversion which seems to subsist between the landward and manufacturing classes of people. |
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