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Title: Shore processes and shoreline development
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Douglas Wilson, 1878-1944
Subjects: Shorelines Coasts
Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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280 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHORELINE Plate XXXVI.
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Fingals Cave on the island ot Staffa, Scotland. A sea cave formed bywave erosion in columnar basalt. YOUNG STAGE 281 the main cliff. These chimneys or stacks (Plates XXXIV andXXXV) may be sculptured by the waves into very strikingforms. Weaker zones are exca^^ated by the waves into sea caves(Plates XXXVI and XXXVII), of which Fingals Cave on theisland of Staff a is a well-known example. Where a projectingbelt of rock is completely pierced by the wave attack, an arch(Plate XXXVIII) is formed. In front of the cliff low tide mayexpose a bare rock platform representing the landward edge ofthe marine bench upon which the occasional stacks are situated(Plates XXII and XXVIII). From the face of the cliff numer-ous landslides (Plate XXXIX), usually small but sometimes ofgrand dimensions, are precipitated into the water or upon therock platform as a consequence of the rapid encroachment ofthe waves along the cliff base. It should be noted that whilethe above-named features begin to appear in t

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