shingle or pebble beach

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• Beach — A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobble. The particles of which the beach is composed can… …   Wikipedia

• Shingle beach — A shingle beach is a beach which is armoured with pebbles or small to medium sized cobbles. Typically the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes ranging from two to 200 millimeters in diameter. Whilst this beach landform is most… …   Wikipedia

• Beach evolution — The shoreline is where the land meets the sea and it is continually changing. Over the long term, the water is eroding the land. Beaches represent a special case, in that they exist where sand accumulated from the same processes that strip away… …   Wikipedia

• Pebble — A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 4 to 64 millimeters based on the Krumbein phi scale of sedimentology. It is generally described to be larger than gravel and smaller than cobble. A rock made predominantly of pebbles is termed a …   Wikipedia

• beach — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ beautiful, fine (esp. BrE), lovely ▪ palm fringed (esp. BrE), sun drenched (esp. BrE), sun kissed (esp. BrE), sunny, tropical …   Collocations dictionary

• Chesil Beach — Coordinates: 50°36′14″N 2°30′58″W / 50.604°N 2.516°W / 50.604; 2.516 …   Wikipedia

• Storm beach — A storm beach is a beach affected by particularly fierce waves, usually with a very long fetch. The resultant landform is often a very steep beach (up to 45°) composed of rounded cobbles, shingle and occasionally sand. The stones usually have an… …   Wikipedia

• Embers — is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in 1957 and first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 24th June 1959. Donald McWhinnie directed Jack MacGowran – for whom the play was especially written [Bair, D., Samuel Beckett: A Biography… …   Wikipedia

• Longshore drift — (sometimes known as shore drift, LSD or littoral drift) is a geological process by which sediments such as sand or other materials, move along a beach shore.MechanismLongshore drift is the net movement of sand and other fine particles like shell… …   Wikipedia

• List of California Historical Landmarks — This is a list of California Historical Landmarks. The official list may be seen [http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/listed resources/?view=all here] . NOTOC · =Alameda County= For more details, please see http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page id=21388.… …   Wikipedia

• Longos, Paxoi — Longos or Loggos (Greek: Λογγός) is the smallest of the island ports on Paxi. Its 2001 population was 65 for the village and 268 for the municipal district.ettlements*Anemogiannatika *Dendiatika *Kagkatika *Kontogiannatika *KoutsiPopulationAbout… …   Wikipedia