Waves of sand and snow and the eddies which make them . ed before the reader proceedswith the text. On comparing the table on p. 189 with the firstit will be seen that the slight diminution in averagelength between June ist and 4th was due to the factthat the front ridges moved more slowly than thoseat the back. The ridges were not contour lines, asthe ridges of swell-formed ripple-mark usually are,but lay along a slope inclining downwards to a low-water channel on the north-west, so that the lastrunnings of the water from the plot were along thetroughs of the waves—, in a direction at rig
Waves of sand and snow and the eddies which make them . ed before the reader proceedswith the text. On comparing the table on p. 189 with the firstit will be seen that the slight diminution in averagelength between June ist and 4th was due to the factthat the front ridges moved more slowly than thoseat the back. The ridges were not contour lines, asthe ridges of swell-formed ripple-mark usually are,but lay along a slope inclining downwards to a low-water channel on the north-west, so that the lastrunnings of the water from the plot were along thetroughs of the waves—, in a direction at rightangles to the current which produced the the tides diminished after springs, the lengthof the waves diminished very slowly, but theirheight fell off rapidly, and at the time of neap,tides they were nearly obliterated, the surface ofthe sandbank being almost smooth., The averagelevel of the sandbank was, however, the tides increased after neaps, well-defined,steep sand-waves were again formed, which grewin height and a. 317
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