Farther south, these rocks form the low coastal belt of Lancashire, edged with the longest stretches of blown sand in England, and dotted here and there with pleasure towns, like Blackpool and Southport.
In Lancashire a flat coastal strip occurs between the western front of the Pennine Chain and the Irish Sea, and, widening southward, extends into Cheshire and comprises the lower valleys of the Mersey and the Dee.
A huge coastal airship thunders out across the land to join our forces.
Zeppelin and seaplane pay visits to the coastal waters, but the sea is wide for a chance missile from the air, and no great success has attended their bombing efforts.
In groups and singles, the ships from Liverpool and the Bristol Channel join us, and we make a busy channel-way of the usually deserted coastal waters.
The charts and maps of the day--most of them being rude Dutch draft sheets--were improved and corrected, and new surveys of the coastal waters were undertaken at charge and patronage of the Brethren.
In the coastal areas aircraft patrolled overhead the convoys, to add their hawk-sight to the ready swerve of the destroyers.
Although now less concerned with the possibility of enemy interference, we have anxiety enough in the navigation of a coastal area in hazy weather.
There are grades of pilotage--from that of the rivers and protected waters to the more hazardous voyages betweencoastal ports.
Watchers on the coastal headlands saw many a running fight between handy little home-traders and the under-sea pirates.
A coastal passenger ship off Hatteras sent out a frantic radio distress call.
It was a dark night, an area of low pressure with leaden storm-clouds over all the Atlantic coastal region, from Charleston north to the Virginia Capes.
An old era in coastal fortifications had come to an end.
Despite the fact that very few of its hundred or more acres lie above the highwater mark, this island has played a significant role in the economic development and military defense of coastal Georgia throughout the history of colony and state.
In the morning, it rained off and on as he drove over the coastal range.
Steep sharp ridges radiated out to a coastal plain.
The coastal highway was wide open, almost barren in comparison to the lush woods.
Their labours ended, the troops were taken by motor bus and railway to a coastal district lying to the south-west of Amiens, there to rest and recuperate in the contemplation of a noble past devoted to the service of the Empire.
Kangaroo grass (Anthistiria ciliata), is found mostly in coastal districts, and although a good pasture grass when green, it soon dries and requires burning.
This was found to be a mistake, and from Wide Bay to the north scarcely any sheep are now to be met with on coastal runs.
The stock came from coastal runs mostly, Dotswood and the Burdekin country supplying much of it, Bowen Downs and Aramac[E] also sending in many large mobs.
To the west was a large bay or bight, called by the Dutch Limmen's Bight; and the whole coastal line seemed to be thickly inhabited by natives.
The Admiralty has recognised that, acting as a coastal scout in time of war, such craft would be of the utmost value; thus we find air-stations dotted round our seaboard, from which machines may fly in a regular patrol.
Before leaving the country, upon his return abroad, he must alight in one of the coastal areas.
Perhaps the most perfect resemblance to coal-forming condition is that now found on such coastal plains as that of southern Florida and the Dismal Swamps of Virginia and North Carolina.
Reelevation, making a coastal plain, would permit the accumulation of another coal bed above the first, and this process might be continued again and again.
Wells of this kind are also common in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the United States.
Near Charleston openings and fissures were formed through which sand and muddy water were ejected, but the cause of the disturbance was most likely slipping of the old very hard rocks below the loose deposits of the Coastal Plain.
The Texas-Louisiana oils come mainly from Cretaceous and Tertiary strata which gently downtilt under the Coastal Plain toward the Gulf.
As already pointed out, the lowlands of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains were mostly submerged under the sea during early middle Tertiary time.
The Gulf coastalplain area from Florida through Texas and south through eastern Mexico was largely overspread by the sea during most of Tertiary time, except the latest.
The coastal range rises in some parts sheer above the sea, and everywhere has so abrupt a declivity that the streams which flow seaward are all short and swift.
In the folded regions the strike conforms to the coastaloutline on the south and east.
There is also water communication between the two places by means of coastal lakes united by canals.
For coastal passages across shallow but rough water like the English Channel, the services of moving bridges will be called into requisition.
Another potent element in the safeguards of civilisation may be seen in the increased effectiveness of weapons for coastal defence.
Still, the fact remains that very large quantities of the coastal land and a considerable quantity of expensive work would be needed for the generation, by means of the tides, of any really material quantity of power.
Lake Mohave as too early or that coastalsouthern California has suffered a considerable cultural lag.
Also, both these types are of not uncommon occurrence in the coastal shell middens that can be assigned to periods of less antiquity than the Tank Site.
Their temporal position appears to be a middle one, as none occur in positive association with late or historic sites, and conversely, none have been reported for Lake Mohave, coastal San Dieguito, or Oak Grove.
This near-complete lack of bone artifacts is a pronounced contrast with later coastal and interior sites.
Noteably both these grinding elements are rare in the coastal San Dieguito and in the Lake Mohave area but do occur among the Shoshonean and Yuman groups who occupied the areas corresponding to these ancient lithic cultures.
In othercoastal sites, the burial pattern found at LAn-2 finds comparable practices (Rogers, D.
Recently a cultural chronology has been suggested for southern California coastal archaeology (Wallace, 1955, p.
It is a type not uncommon to the later coastal group.
His name was Gokool and he had come up from one of the great coastalsugar plantations.
All the dominant tones of this newly washed coastal region were distinct and incisive.
The colonists had taken land for their early requirements from the Indians who inhabited the coastal plain.
The territory flanking the Mississippi Valley, with its coastal plains and the deposits of mineral wealth, is one of the richest in the world.
In this way we can, in part at least, account for the endless changes in the attitude of the land along the coastal belt without having to suppose that the continents cease to rise or the sea floors to sink downward.
If all the lands were of the same height, the rain would generally come in largest proportion upon their coastal belt, or those portions of the shore-line districts over which the sea winds swept.
The two vessels are barely as large as coastal schooners; but shallow draft enables them to essay the Upper St. Lawrence far as Mount Royal, where Cartier had voyaged.
FALL-LINE, in American geology, a line marking the junction between the hard rocks of the Appalachian Mountains and the softer deposits of the coastal plain.
The glittering boulders of the coastal plain fell away, and I felt myself being whirled through space.
Many of the huge, crystal clear boulders which covered the beach and the coastal plain which led to the hills, were covered with leafless flowers which had immense, leathery petals and sharp, fang-like spines.
In this general scouring of the coastal waters of the kingdom certain points were of necessity subjected to a much closer surveillance than others.
However, the matter is not of very great concern as it is probably true that the models of coastal and transatlantic packet ships were quite similar at the period of the Savannah.
Lines of the coastalpacket ship Ohio, built at Philadelphia in 1825 for the Philadelphia-New Orleans run.
The plan shows she was about 2 feet 4 inches deeper in hold than the Savannah, and, according to Cutler, she had "an unexpected degree of sophistication for a coastal packet of that period.
This statement is supported by the plan of a coastal packet built seven years after the Savannah.
The yard appears to have specialized in the construction ofcoastal packet ships, because only 4 ocean packets, against 24 coastal packets, were built by the various partnerships in which Fickett was a member.
As there seemed no prospect of any being sent, they were ordered to France, and took up their quarters on a sandy waste near the French coastal forts.
We sped on, and could see one of the famous coastalforts on the horizon.
Pecans are grown in every county, although there is a comparatively small number of trees in most of the Piedmont and Mountain counties, and several counties in the lower Coastal Plain.
