Past Sea-Levels at Dungeness

Lewis, W. V.; Balchin, W. G. V.

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“…Whilst newlycreated barrier beaches are adjusted to prevailing relative sea-level (cf. Lewis and Balchin, 1940) and coastal dynamics (tides, waves and storms), thus limiting the potential for back-barrier flooding by overwashing, the system is highly dependent upon the available sediment reservoir. Although cannibalisation is a mechanism by which the foreland is able to recycle sediment and become self-regulating to a degree, this leaves the up-drift part of the barrier complex susceptible to breaching and back-barrier flooding through a process of 'sidestepping' (tidal ingress to the back-barrier through breaching of a cannibalised shore rather than direct overwashing of the prograding gravel foreland).…”

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“…In the context of dating, Lewis and Balchin (1940) used cartographic and documentary evidence to assign ages to particular shorelines and placed the onset of gravel deposition as pre-Roman. Eddison (1983) employed gravel ridge altitude in combination with the established trend in relative sea-level for the Thames (Devoy, 1979) to assign ages to different periods of gravel deposition, e.g.…”

Section: Holocene Coastal Change In the Dungeness Foreland Regionmentioning

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Evidence of episodic coastal change during the Late Holocene: The Dungeness barrier complex, SE England

2009

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Section: Holocene Coastal Change In the Dungeness Foreland Regionmentioning

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Evidence of episodic coastal change during the Late Holocene: The Dungeness barrier complex, SE England

2009

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“…We identify multiple spatial and temporal scales of morphological shown are from Lewis and Balchin (1940). Transect 1 (Long and Innes, 1995), Transects 2 and 3 ).…”

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“…However, these early models were largely speculative being based on scant stratigraphic evidence and no absolute dating. Following a systematic mapping of the morphology of the Dungeness beaches, Lewis (1932) and Lewis and Balchin (1940) assigned ages to individual shorelines based on cartographic and documentary evidence. They suggested that the beach ridges near Broomhill Level (Fig.…”

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“…Beach at Galloway's Lookout and Muddymore Pit, with one set of beaches reaching a maximum altitude of c. +6.5 m OD (Lewis and Balchin, 1940;Plater and Long, 1995 (Harkness, 1983). OSL ages are presented in full in Roberts and Plater (2005) and Roberts and Plater (in press), and are cited in years before AD 1950 to enable comparison with the radiocarbon dates.…”

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Coastal resilience and late Holocene tidal inlet history: The evolution of Dungeness Foreland and the Romney Marsh depositional complex (U.K.)

2006

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The back‐barrier and barrier depositional history of Romney Marsh, Walland Marsh and Dungeness, Kent, England

Long

Innés

1995

J Quaternary Science

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Previous stratigraphical investigations of Romney Marsh have tended to be local in scale, and this has hindered efforts to establish a unifying stratigraphical framework for this area. This paper addresses this problem, by describing the results of a 12-km transect across Romney Marsh, linking previously studied back-and fore-marsh sites (Horsemarsh Sewer and Broomhill respectively), and presenting additional pollen, diatom and radiocarbon data from an intermediate, mid-marsh site (Brookland). One main organic unit is recorded across much of Romney Marsh, although its age, altitude and composition varies. Microfossil and radiocarbon data from Brookland and elsewhere on Romney Marsh show that this organic unit accumulated under a general removal and return of marine conditions that took place between ca. 5100 and 2000 yr BP.A recently proposed model of barrier development is used to investigate the history of backbarrier sedimentation in Romney and Walland Marshes. This model suggests a three-phase lifehistory for gravel barriers, which consists of initiation, stability and breakdown. Although there are problems in relating back-barrier deposits directly to barrier dynamics, nevertheless the Romney Marsh data do, for the most part, agree with the expected number and sequence of sealevel tendencies predicted by this model. The back-barrier stratigraphical data suggest that initiation, stability and breakdown of the Dungeness foreland occurred between ca. 6000 and 5000 yr BP, 5000 and 2000 yr BP and 2000 yr BP and present, respectively. Journal of Quaternary Science

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Past Sea-Levels at Dungeness

Cited by 38 publications

References 1 publication

Evidence of episodic coastal change during the Late Holocene: The Dungeness barrier complex, SE England

Evidence of episodic coastal change during the Late Holocene: The Dungeness barrier complex, SE England

Coastal resilience and late Holocene tidal inlet history: The evolution of Dungeness Foreland and the Romney Marsh depositional complex (U.K.)

The back‐barrier and barrier depositional history of Romney Marsh, Walland Marsh and Dungeness, Kent, England

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