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Category Archives: sand
Some things I didn’t know about sand-ripples and the sea
‘ … the tide holds back from the flat wet sands / That darken from tawny to brown, where little pools / Are stranded like starfish in the rippling ribs’. Norman Nicholson, The Bow in the Cloud (I am grateful … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, sand, sea-bed & undersea
Tagged Allonby Bay, Bagnold, sand-ripples, sand-waves, sandbanks, sandstone
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The design of the Solway: an aerial perspective, part 2
September 2nd, 0845h: Andrew Lysser, pilot, aerial photographer, instructor, and owner of Cumbria Gyroplanes, and I lifted off from the runway at Carlisle airport in a silver-coloured gyroplane. This time I wasn’t nervous, and there was no wall of rain … Continue reading
Posted in aerial views, Allonby, ports, sand, sea-bed & undersea
Tagged aerial views, gyroplane, megaripples, ripples, River Eden, Romans, Sabellaria, salt-pans, sandbanks, ships, Silloth, Solway
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Seeing the sea-bed
‘The ground’s too rough – the shrimp-boats avoid it like the plague, it does too much damage to their nets’, says David Dobson, now retired from the NW-Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority at Whitehaven, talking about the sea-bed in Allonby … Continue reading
Posted in artificial reefs, Marine Conservation Zone, renewable energy, tide & wind, sand, sea-bed & undersea
Tagged artificial reef, current speeds, drop-down video, Marine Conservation Zone, octopus's garden, offshore wind-farms, scour pits, turbine foundations
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Dune walk (with one diversion)
My guided shore-walks are ‘vertical’, from the bottom to the top of the shore – we usually spend a lot of time looking at the animals near the low water mark, with diversions on the way back to see the … Continue reading
Posted in dunes, sand, tidelines
Tagged butterflies, dunes, lugworms, marram, sand, sandmartins, shore-walks, tideline
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Sculpting sand
Sand is naturally sculpted by wind and water: lifted and swirled to create ever-changing dunes, or washed to and fro and compacted in a shifting pattern of ripples. If the topography and environment change over geological time-scales, the sculpting, the … Continue reading
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