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Basal sand and gravel patches with separate indications of tidal current and storm-wave paths, near Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

N. C. Flemming  and
A. H. Stride
N. C. Flemming
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley
A. H. Stride
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley
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Diving observations and more wide-spread coverage by Asdic show that the late Holocene basal neritic deposits of the broad bay between The Lizard and Start Point are represented by three main facies whose character depends on the two bed-transport paths converging there. The sheet sands laid at the end of the path with a good supply show a progressive geographical change in texture. On the other path, where sand is in short supply, there are elongated patches of somewhat coarser, well-sorted sand with ‘silt’ balls, alternating with shell-rich gravel patches. While the sand patches are laid out along the path of the strongest tidal currents, the ripple marks of the gravel can only be constructed by long waves from the Atlantic.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , June 1967 , pp. 433 - 444
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1967

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