V.—A Note on the Torbay Raised Beaches and on the Detached Blocks trawled in the English Channel

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 405-408
Author(s):  
A. R. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Importance ◽  
English Channel ◽  
The South ◽  
Important Paper ◽  
Coast Line ◽  
Raised Beaches

In Professor Prestwich's important paper on the Raised Beaches of the South of England the following passage occurs: “In Torbay there are small portions of a Raised Beach near Paignton…” As on the strength of this statement the line of Raised Beaches is carried in the map round the extreme present limits of Torbay, and the hitherto universally accepted doctrine, that Raised Beaches do not occur in the softer parts of the coast-line, is thus controverted, the assertion is one of considerable importance.

The Villa Item and a Bride's Ordeal

1929 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Toynbee
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Important Paper ◽  
The North ◽  
Dwelling House ◽  
South Wall ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
North Wall ◽  
The Right

The paintings in the triclinium of the Villa Item, a dwelling-house excavated in 1909 outside the Porta Ercolanese at Pompeii, have not only often been published and discussed by foreign scholars, but they have also formed the subject of an important paper in this Journal. The artistic qualities of the paintings have been ably set forth: it has been established beyond all doubt that the subject they depict is some form of Dionysiac initiation: and, of the detailed interpretations of the first seven of the individual scenes, those originally put forward by de Petra and accepted, modified or developed by Mrs. Tillyard appear, so far as they go, to be unquestionably on the right lines. A fresh study of the Villa Item frescoes would seem, however, to be justified by the fact that the majority of previous writers have confined their attention almost entirely to the first seven scenes—the three to the east of the entrance on the north wall (fig. 3), the three on the east wall and the one to the east of the window on the south wall, to which the last figure on the east wall, the winged figure with the whip, undoubtedly belongs.

Excavations at Satriano: A Deserted Medieval Settlement in Basilicata

1970 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 188-219
Author(s):  
David Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Mountain Settlements

The remains of medieval Satriano occupy the acropolis of the Lucanian town, a hilltop site 16 km. south-west of Potenza (Pl. XXVII, a). Like the Lucanian settlement, the medieval site owed its existence to the commanding position of the acropolis, which not only dominates the surrounding countryside, but also overlooks an important route between Campania and Apulia. The valleys of the Tanagro and the Platano (which together join the Sele near Contursi) and of the Basento form a corridor through the mountains from west to east, linking Salerno, Potenza and Taranto, with an alternative route from Potenza to Gravina and Bari (Fig. 1). In addition, the Melandro valley, which joins the Platano west of Vietri, passes to the south of the foot of Satriano acropolis and gives access to Brienza, Grumento and the mountain settlements of north Calabria. Finally, leaving the Salerno-Taranto route at Potenza, an easy track led northwards to Lagopesole, Melfi and the Foggia plain. While Potenza was the pivot of this network of routes, Satriano was also well placed to benefit from contact with the wealthy regions of Campania and Apulia. In an area which produced little or no iron and possessed no deposits of copper or lead, such contact was of considerable importance.

Note on a Micoquian Tool from a Raised Beach in Morbihan

1956 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Henri Breuil
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Narrow Channel ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Vertical Position ◽  
Glacial Period ◽  
English Channel ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Raised Beaches ◽  
Geological Position

During the years between 1932–40 I went many times to Carnac (Morbihan) to visit megaliths in that neighbourhood and copy the decorations on them. I was astonished to note, amongst the chipped stone tools in the museum there, a very small yellowish flint bifaced implement picked up by Zachary Le Rouzic on the island of Téviec, noted for the excavations and magnificent Mesolithic discoveries of M. and Mme. St.-Just Péquart. This, of course, was not a tool from their Mesolithic site, but was a stray find from the island, where it was found by Le Rouzic in the gravelly section near the neck of land joining the Quiberon peninsula. Téviec consists of two islands divided by a narrow channel of sea. The section is opposite to the mainland, on the bigger island forming the edge of this channel. It shows threé beds of sea-worn pebbles of medium and small size; the upper two beds are separated by red sand. In the uppermost bed, the pebbles have taken a vertical position, similar to those in the upper part (the so-called head) of the lower raised beaches of the English Channel. This phenomenon is due to the cryoturbation during a glacial period. The upper bed is pre-Würmian, though not necessarily very much so, for it suffered through cryoturbation during the Würmian stage. The angles of the stone implement are sharp, i.e. it had not been rolled—and it came therefore from the red sandy bed, that is from a late stage in the Riss-Würm, when the sea slightly retreated between two periods of slight rises in sea-level. This implement thus has some importance owing to its geological position. I visited the site with Zachary Le Rouzic on the ioth October, 1936, but I found no sign of worked stone tools in any of these levels, which are very slightly above the modern sea-level.

Holocene isostatic uplift of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, modelled from raised beaches

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 1880-1893 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.T. Fretwell ◽  
D.A. Hodgson ◽  
E.P. Watcham ◽  
M.J. Bentley ◽  
S.J. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Antarctic Peninsula ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Isostatic Uplift ◽  
Raised Beaches

scholarly journals XXIII.—Excavations at Cæsar's Camp near Folkestone, conducted in June and July, 1878

Archaeologia ◽  
1883 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augustus H. L. F. Pitt-Rivers
Keyword(s):  
English Channel ◽  
Coast Line ◽  
North West ◽  
Good View ◽  
The North

The earthwork known as Cæsar's Camp or Castle Hill is one mile and three-quarters (3 kil.) to the north-west of Folkestone Harbour. It is a conspicuous object from the railway to all who look for it, being situated on the summit of the line of hills termed by geologists the Chalk Escarpment, and overlooking from a commanding position the whole of the low ground between it and the sea. A good view of it taken from the east may be seen in the frontispiece to Mr. W. Topley's Geology of the Weald. Geologically the ground on which the Camp has been constructed corresponds to that of Mount Caburn on the opposite side of the weald valley; both overlook the weald valley, but from opposite directions, both occupy the chalk ridges which bound the valley on three sides, and both are situated not far from the coast line on which that extensive geological area opens into the English Channel.

scholarly journals Cascading Over the Continental Slope of Water from the Celtic Sea

1949 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. H. N. Cooper ◽  
David Vaux
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
English Channel ◽  
The South ◽  
Celtic Sea

In the Celtic Sea, to the south of Ireland, water in some winters becomes sufficiently cooled and heavy to flow to the edge of the continental shelf and to run down the continental slope to a depth of several hundred metres. A theory of the phenomenon, termed ‘cascading’, has been developed. Three winters have been examined in detail.In February 1927 much water, heavy enough to cascade, was present in the Celtic Sea and also in the English Channel. A probable course and speed of the cascading water over the shelf has been established. Since there were few observations of salinity and temperature over or beyond the slope, and none of oxygen anywhere, the theory cannot be completely established on the basis of the 1927 observations, full though they were.

scholarly journals A PROPOSAL FOR WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION NEAR CAPE TOWN

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
G. De F Retief ◽  
G.K. Prestedge ◽  
F.P.J. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Wave Energy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Wave Energy Conversion ◽  
The South ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Distribution ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Coast Line

The South African wave energy program has been underway for several years and has included an analysis of the temporal and spatial distribution of wave energy along the full coast-line, determination of energy attenuation perpendicular to the coast-line at a site on the south western coast, and the development of a wave energy converter which is most suited to local conditions and requirements. The resource analysis has shown that the inshore power levels occurring along the south western coast are as promising as any elsewhere in the world. A bottom mounted, V-shaped wave energy conversion device driving an air turbine has been found to be most suited to prevailing conditions. The conversion characteristics of the device are presented, based on 1:100 scale three dimensional and 1:50 scale two dimensional model studies. Preliminary design studies of the proposed conversion system have underlined its potential viability as a cost effective supplementary source of power.

scholarly journals Analysis of hydrometeorological conditions in the south Baltic Sea during the stormy weather on 27th November, 2016

2017 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Czesław Dyrcz
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
The South ◽  
Wind Force ◽  
Pressure System ◽  
Coast Line ◽  
Stormy Weather ◽  
Low Pressure System ◽  
The Baltic

The paper presents results of research concerning hydrological and meteorological conditions during the stormy weather on 27th November, 2016 in the South Baltic Sea and over the Polish coast. The wind which occurred the South Baltic Sea at that time reached the force of 7 Beaufort degree and in gusts 8 to 9 Beaufort degree. The south part of the Baltic Sea was affected by the low pressure system (981 hPa) which the centre was situated in South Finland and Northwest Russia. Some destroys were observed on the Polish coast line and in ports of the Gdansk Bay. The analyses is concerned on the wind force, the wind direction, the atmospheric pressure and the sea water level in some places of the Polish coast line and especially in the Gdansk Bay.

scholarly journals Global rise in sea level: a South African perspective

1989 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. E. Lutjeharms ◽  
D. H. Swart
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
South African ◽  
Trace Gases ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
The South ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
Coast Line ◽  
African Coast ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
African Perspective

There is general scientific consensus that the increase in anthropogenic trace gases in the atmosphere is leading to an increase in global temperatures. This global perturbation of climate is causing a rise in mean sea-level. Such a rise has important implications for sensitive coastal areas. Research on the possible consequences for the South African coast-line is urgently required.

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