The Nascent Forest of the Miscou Beach Plain

W. F. Ganong

doi:10.1086/328934

Sections in the Beach-plain Deposits of Dungeness, Kent

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756800048949 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 104 (4) ◽

pp. 361-370 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

R. W. Hey

Keyword(s):

Late Holocene ◽

Low Levels ◽

Beach Plain

AbstractRecent excavations on Dungeness have provided excellent sections through the deposits of its late Holocene beach-plains. The material at the surface is loose shingle, but at a depth of a few feet this passes down into gravel packed with sand. The gravel in turn rests upon almost stoneless sand with marine shells, the contact between the two deposits falling from - 13 feet O.D. in the most northerly section to - 24 feet in the most southerly.It is confirmed that the more pebbly deposits were laid down on an actively prograding foreshore, as has generally been supposed. Problems are raised, however, by the low levels of their base and by some of their structural and lithological features. These are discussed, and explanations are offered where possible.

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Reconstruction of an interrupted primary beach plain succession using a Geographical Information System

Journal of Coastal Conservation ◽

10.1007/bf02908181 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 71-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

A. van der Veen ◽

A. P. Grootjans ◽

J. de Jong ◽

J. Rozema

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Geographical Information System ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Beach Plain

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Paleotsunami Inundation of a Beach Ridge Plain: Cobble Ridge Overtopping and Interridge Valley Flooding in Seaside, Oregon, USA

Journal of Geological Research ◽

10.1155/2010/276989 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2010 ◽

pp. 1-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Curt D. Peterson ◽

Harry M. Jol ◽

Tom Horning ◽

Kenneth M. Cruikshank

Keyword(s):

Shear Stresses ◽

Before Present ◽

Beach Ridge ◽

Beach Ridges ◽

Cobble Beach ◽

Bed Shear Stresses ◽

Beach Plain

The Seaside beach ridge plain was inundated by six paleotsunamis during the last ~2500 years. Large runups (adjusted >10 m in height) overtopped seawardmost cobble beach ridges (7 m elevation) at ~1.3 and ~2.6 ka before present. Smaller paleotsunami (6–8 m in height) likely entered the beach plain interior (4-5 m elevation) through the paleo-Necanicum bay mouth. The AD 1700 Cascadia paleotsunami had a modest runup (6-7 m height), yet it locally inundated to 1.5 km landward distance. Bed shear stresses (100–3,300 dyne cm−2) are estimated for paleotsunami surges (0.5–2 m depths) that flowed down slopes (0.002–0.017 gradient) on the landward side of the cobble beach ridges. Critical entrainment shear stresses of 1,130–1,260 dyne cm−2 were needed to dislodge the largest clasts (26–32 cm diameter) in paleotsunami coulees that were cut (100–200 m width) into the landward side of the cobble ridges.

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The Icenian Crag of southeast Suffolk

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.1974.0039 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 269 (895) ◽

pp. 1-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Deciduous Forest ◽

Middle Pleistocene ◽

Pollen Assemblage ◽

Marine Transgression ◽

Open Coast ◽

Lower Pleistocene ◽

Mollusc Assemblages ◽

Deep Boreholes ◽

Beach Plain

Sections in the Icenian Crag at Chillesford, Aldeburgh, Thorpe Aldringham, Sizewell, Dunwich, Wangford and Southwold are described. Pollen and mollusc assemblages from these sites are tabled. The Icenian Crag is shown to contain a temperate pollen assemblage, resulting from a regional deciduous forest of the time. The assemblage is provisionally correlated with the Pastonian stage of the Middle Pleistocene, as Tsuga is very poorly represented and Abies is absent. The mollusc assemblages are divided into a sublittoral or infralittoral facies, a sheltered estuarine or wadden area facies, an open coast facies and a high-boreal or sub-arctic silty deposit facies, probably infralittoral. The unconformable relation of the Icenian Crag to Red and Coralline Crags at Chillesford and Aldeburgh and to Baventian sediments at Easton Bavents indicates a strong marine transgression over Lower Pleistocene deposits in Pastonian times. The beach plain of the Westleton Beds is included within this transgressive phase. Pollen assemblages from deep boreholes at Sizewell and Southwold show that the transgression deposits overlie Lower Pleistocene sediments correlated with the PreLudhamian, Thurnian and Baventian stages. A correlation is suggested between the Pastonian and the Cromerian III Interglacial of the Netherlands.

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