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Erosion of a Rock Floor by Tidal Sand Streams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. T. Donovan  and
A. H. Stride
D. T. Donovan
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Surrey.
A. H. Stride
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Bristol.
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Abstract

Some closed basins extending along the strike of soft rocks in the English and Bristol Channels were cut by sand moved by tidal currents.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 98 , Issue 5 , October 1961 , pp. 393 - 398
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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