Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-03T15:19:35.441Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Effect of China Clay on the Sediments of St Austell and Mevagissey Bays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. E. Portmann
J. E. Portmann
Affiliation:
Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Although a good deal of attention has been paid to the type of sediments found in the south-western English Channel as a whole (see, for example, Allen, 1899; Stride, 1959, 1963; Flemming & Stride, 1967) very little work has been done on the local distribution of sediments in the immediate coastal area. The only data on the sediments in St Austell and Mevagissey Bays appear to have been given by Holme (1961), but even he provides details for only three stations. Some information on sediments in these bays in less recent times can be obtained from early Admiralty surveys, although the accuracy of some of the very old data may be questioned.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , August 1970 , pp. 577 - 591
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1970

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Allen, E. J., 1899. On the fauna and bottom deposits near the thirty-fathom line from Eddystone to Start Point. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., Vol. 5, pp. 365–542.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baird, R. H., 1958. A preliminary account of a new half square metre bottom sampler. ICES CM. 1958, Doc. 70, Shellfish Comm. (mimeo), 4 pp.Google Scholar
Flemming, N. C. & Stride, A. H., 1967. Basal sand and gravel patches with separate indications of tidal current and storm-wave paths, near Plymouth. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., Vol. 47, pp. 433–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hjulström, F., 1935. Studies of the morphological activity of rivers as illustrated by the R. Fyris. III. Erosion, transportation and sedimentation. Bull.geol. Instn Univ. Upsala, Vol. 25, pp. 292–346.Google Scholar
Holme, N. A., 1961. The bottom fauna of the English Channel. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., Vol. 41, pp. 397–461.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howell, B. R. & Shelton, R. G. J., 1970. The effect of china clay on the bottom fauna of St. Austell and Mevagissey Bays. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., Vol. 70, pp. 593–607.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Inman, D. L., 1949. Sorting of sediments in the light of fluid mechanics. J. sedim. Petrol., Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 51–70.Google Scholar
Stride, A. H., 1959. A linear pattern in the sea floor and its interpretation. J. mar. biol. Ass., U.K., Vol. 38, pp. 313–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stride, A. H., 1963. Current-swept sea floors near the southern half of Great Britain. Q. Jl geol. Soc. Lond., Vol. 119, pp. 175–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar