scholarly journals CASE HISTORIES OF TWO ESTUARIES

1968 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
C.H. Dobbie
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Littoral Drift ◽  
South West ◽  
Sand Spit ◽  
Tidal Estuaries ◽  
Moray Firth ◽  
South West England ◽  
Historical Detail

The coast of Great Britain has many interesting examples of the interaction between tidal estuaries of rivers and the littoral drift of the coast. These have been described with historical detail mainly by geographers (ref.l). Two cases coming to the author's firm for action have interest for coastal engineers. For the River Spey m the Moray Firth of Scotland, a famous and vigorous river, unusual works have been undertaken with success. For Dawlish Warren, a sand spit m the Exe Estuary of Devon m South West England, a scheme of works is being prepared which has novelty in regard to British practices.

The composition and distribution of nodular monazite in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Great Britain

1987 ◽  
Vol 51 (360) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Read ◽  
D. C. Cooper ◽  
J. M. McArthur
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Host Rock ◽  
Sedimentary Rock ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
South West ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
South West England

AbstractMillimetric, ellipsoidal monazite nodules found within Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks in Wales, south-west England and Brittany are characterised by a pronounced zonation of light and heavy REE, an inclusion fabric of low-grade metamorphic minerals indistinguishable from the host rock and a low Th content. They are interpreted as the product of in situ recrystallization of detrital monazites derived from pegmatitic or granitic source rocks and are potentially useful as indicators of Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary rock provenance.

The Bionomics of the Lesser Bulb Flies, Eumerus strigatus, Flyn., and Eumerus tuberculatus, Rond., in South–west England

1927 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. H. Hodson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Plant Pests ◽  
South West ◽  
The Family ◽  
Type Of Injury ◽  
South West England

The larvae of certain flies belonging to the family Syrphidae have long been recognised as plant pests. Merodon equestris, Fab., was recorded in Great Britain as far back as 1869, having probably been imported in narcissus bulbs from Holland (Verrall). This fly is now universally known as the “ Large Narcissus Fly,” the larvae causing serious losses in nearly every locality where the narcissus is grown commercially. More recently flies of the genus Eumerus have been associated with a type of injury very similar to that caused by the larger fly, and the larvae have been recorded on a variety of host-plants in Europe and America. Chief among these hosts may be included narcissus, onion, hyacinth, parsnip, iris, and potato. The flies are commonly referred to as “ Lesser Bulb Flies ” or alternatively in some parts of North America, where they were first recorded as European introductions in 1904, as “ Lunate Onion Flies.”

Teloschistes Flavicans in Great Britain: Distribution and Ecology

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 493-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. L. Gilbert ◽  
O. W. Purvis
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Other ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
South West ◽  
North Wales ◽  
Coastal Cliff ◽  
Southern Half ◽  
Distribution And Ecology ◽  
South West England

AbstractOver the last century, the distribution of Teloschistes flavicans has contracted from being widespread in the southern half of England and Wales to being limited to South-West England with outlying populations in Pembrokeshire and North Wales. Twelve core sites have been identified where the species is well established: ten of these are saxicolous/terricolous habitats on windy coastal cliff tops; the other two are lines of sycamore trees near the coast. At 39 further localities, some inland, the species is in very small amounts (often on one tree) and vulnerable to extinction. It is normally a member of the Parmelietum revolutae or Ramalinetum scopularis associations. The conservation of the species is discussed.

scholarly journals EROSION PROBLEMS OF THE DUTCH ISLAND OF GOEREE

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
H.G.H. Ten Hoopen Krueger ◽  
W.T. Bakker
Keyword(s):  
Sand Transport ◽  
Littoral Drift ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
Delta Area ◽  
Dutch Coast ◽  
South West ◽  
Tidal Estuaries ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Wave Induced

At many places along the Dutch coast especially at the West side of the islands, erosion occurs. One of the islands where the erosion is severe, is Goeree, situated in the Delta area in the South-West of the Netherlands. (see fig. 1). This isle is recently connected with other islands by dams, (see fig.2). These dams built within the scope of the Delt aproject plans closing the tidal estuaries and to shorten the length of the coastline thus reducing the wave attack. This paper examines how the influences of the closure of the estuaries affect on the erosion of the neighbouring coast. To this end, the changes in vertical and horizontal tide caused by the closure as well as the wave induced littoral drift and the sand transport caused by a combination of tidal currents and waves before and after the closure, are computed. On the basis of this computations, a few suitable solutions for the reduction of erosion are discussed.

An environmental study of the Upper Domerian and Lower Toarcian in Great Britain

1967 ◽  
Vol 252 (778) ◽  
pp. 393-445 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Environmental Study ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
South West ◽  
Facies Associations ◽  
Local Topography ◽  
Shelf Sea ◽  
Shallow Seas ◽  
South West England

An integrated petrological and palaeoecological study has been undertaken of the Spinatum, Tenuicostatum and Falciferum zones of the Lias in all the major British sections. After a brief stratigraphical review the deposits are described systematically in terms of four regions, Yorkshire, the Midlands, south-west England and the Inner Hebrides. The Spinatum Zone consists of a series of ironstones, bioclastic limestones and fine sandstones with a rich and diverse fauna dominated by brachiopods, bivalves and belemnites. The Tenuicostatum Zone , thin or absent in most areas, tends to be finer grained and more argillaceous, with a fauna related to that of the underlying beds. The Falciferum Zone is characterized especially by the extremely widespread development of laminated bituminous shales with an impoverished invertebrate fauna. A brief world stratigraphical review leads to the conclusion that there was a notable eustatic rise of sea level in the early part of the Toarcian. The British deposits are considered to have been laid down in a very shallow shelf sea in an area of great tectonic stability and very slight relief. Within this context, the facies was controlled primarily by rates of deposition and subsidence, local topography, liability to wave action and proximity of rivers. The early Toarcian transgression, following a late Domerian regression, had the effect of inducing widespread stagnation below wave base, until the sea had deepened sufficiently in mid Toarcian times to allow freer circulation. Four different facies associations in the fauna can be distinguished and related to environmental conditions. The development of faunal provinces among the later Domerian ammonites and brachiopods and some extinction is attributed to the existence of extremely shallow seas extensively broken up by newly emergent land. The widespread phase of bottom stagnation in the Falciferum Zone led to extinction of most of the benthos, so that the overlying beds contain a substantially new fauna, with Middle Jurassic affinities.

TBE in United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Clinical Disease ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Probable Case ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South West ◽  
Louping Ill ◽  
The Uk ◽  
North And South ◽  
South West England

Until 2019, TBE was considered only to be an imported disease to the United Kingdom. In that year, evidence became available that the TBEV is likely circulating in the country1,2 and a first “probable case” of TBE originating in the UK was reported.3 In addition to TBEV, louping ill virus (LIV), a member of the TBEV-serocomplex, is also endemic in parts of the UK. Reports of clinical disease caused by LIV in livestock are mainly from Scotland, parts of North and South West England and Wales.4

scholarly journals A Cornish revival? The nascent iconization of a post-obsolescent language

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Dunmore
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Group Boundaries ◽  
South West

AbstractThis article considers the case of Cornish, a Celtic language that was in decline in the south-west of Great Britain from the early medieval era until the end of the eighteenth century, when its last recorded native speakers died out. At the point when a language under pressure eventually succumbs to forces of language shift, its role in representations of a distinct sociocultural identity might be expected to die with the medium itself. Yet a sense of cohesion at the group level has been observed to endure long after a shift to another language has occurred, with the obsolescent variety retaining a role in the maintenance of group boundaries. In situations of language shift, the meanings of such social constructions can change considerably, and the obsolescent variety may retain ideological associations with the group as an iconized symbol of identity. The analysis presented in this paper is based on an examination of the historical record as well as a synthesis of recent sociological research on Cornish. Attention will be drawn specifically to the manner in which the language has functioned as an icon of identity since the nadir of its decline as a spoken vernacular, through the ‘Cornish Revival’ of the twentieth century to the present day.

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