Glacial Sections near Bridlington

Abstract

Part II. cliff section extending 900 yards south of the harbour. In pursuance of my plan of describing sections in this neighbourhood which are likely to be closed to the geologist, it is desirable that some account should be given of the cliff-section which lies immediately to the south of the Harbour at Bridlington Quay, as this is already partly hidden. I have therefore drawn to scale a section of the cliff for a distance of 900 yards from the South Pier, as is shown in the accompanying plate, and this I now supplement, as before, with a description and notes of some deductions I have drawn whilst at work on the section. Over the extent covered by my section and for about 500 yards beyond it, a private individual, the owner of the land abutting on the cliff, has obtained foreshore rights from the Board of Trade, with the avowed intention of reclaiming and defending his property by the erection of a long line of sea-defences. As a first instalment of this work, a concrete wall was commenced four years ago near the South Pier, and carried across the beach for a distance of 750 feet; but having been based on a soft laminated clay, (No. 4 of section), its foundations have slipped upwards and outwards in places; and it is now in a very unsatisfactory condition. I suppose it is owing to this cause that the work has been suspended. The waste of the cliff along this section has always been very rapid, but since the wall was built, ...