If this does happen, then surely we would see many pebbles in the ocean and not clean sand. I agree with the comments made by Jon Davies. When I was a kid in the 40s and 50s, where the Marina now stands was the start of the Undercliff Walk. The beaches east of the Black Rock swimming pool were covered by pebbles averaging six inches in diameter.
Why were they much larger than on the beaches westwards? I can remember when I was a child, Brighton beach always had a lot of tar on the pebbles. My Mother used to rub the tar on our skin with butter and then it washed off easily. Can anyone else remember doing this?
I just did a walking tour of Southern England and spent 2 days walking along the beach from Brighton to Bognor Regis and the pebbles are exactly the same all the way along.
There is no way that could be man made! I also watched the waves at one part where the water got deep very quickly so the waves broke right over the pebbles and I noticed every single time the pebbles would be pushed up off the sand creating the layer of pebbles on top, separate from the sand. It is certainly a natural landscape and not caused by man. The sea is a fantastic and conniving force both strong and immense. I lived by the sea until I was 21, in Eastbourne and saw what the sea can do.
In winter, if there was a particularly rough sea, it would empty many beaches of pebbles and sand, right down to either the hard pack sand or the baserock. The ramps going down to the beaches would have their foundations exposed, also the promenade foundations too, it was a great time to go beach hunting as well. Then the next day all the pebbles returned as if nothing had happened.
Sometimes the sea would wash tons of pebbles up onto the lower promenade and council workers had to shovel them by hand out of the shelters and back onto the beach.
The rest of the rock tends to be limestone. Limestone is highly soluble in water. Instead of being broken down into sand, it either dissolves completely or it becomes a gooey mud.
This mud has absolutely nothing in common with sand. Yes, the kind of flint that you can strike to make a fire. A pebble beach is a much better place to sunbathe than a mud pit. The pebbles stretch a long way out into the water and provide a solid shield from the limestone mud. They may not be quite as comfortable as sand on a beach, but Brighton Beach is still very popular with holidaymakers in the summer.
Brighton Beach is one of the countries longest and the shingle section runs for an unbroken apart from the groyne divisions 5. You can find both brick-walled chalets and timber beach huts running along much of the length of Brighton Beach.
And finally, how could we not mention Brighton Beach? Image Credit: Dave Letorey via Flickr. We use cookies to help make our site work properly and to analyze how our site is used. Some are optional, but none contain your personal information.
This is how spits are formed: Sediment is carried by longshore drift. When there is a change in the shape of the coastline, deposition occurs. A long thin ridge of material is deposited. This is the spit. A hooked end can form if there is a change in wind direction. Waves cannot get past a spit, therefore the water behind a spit is very sheltered.
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