landslide involving about 1 million tonnes of glacial till cut back the 60 m high cliff by 70 m. Soft engineering The Maldives has the lowest average height above sea level of any country (1.5 m or 4.5 ft.) The nature reserve is an area of sand dunes. These are dynamic‚ but often unstable and vulnerable environments. Point 1 A spit is formed- prevailing wind hits the coast at the oblique angle. A coastal management scheme costing £2 million was introduced involving two types of hard engineering
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Camping: Mountains and Desert A few times a year‚ I like to go camping. Sometimes I go to the mountains in Kern County‚ California‚ whereas‚ other times I go to the desert in Brawley‚ California. Camping in the mountains‚ although similar in atmosphere‚ terrain and activities‚ has many more benefits than camping in the desert. There is nothing like taking a deep breath of cool‚ crisp mountain air‚ taking that narrow winding road that never seems to end until at last reaching the very spot that
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of blubber | | | Adaptations in Plants Plants also have adaptations that help them survive better in their environment. Marram grass is a good example of a plant which is adapted to live in very dry conditions‚ for example on sand dune systems. The leaves of the marram grass are adapted to survive with the limited water available in the desert. In very dry conditions‚ the leaves of the marram grass roll up to form long tubes. This helps drain any water down towards the roots
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When I was a young child‚ my family would go to Silvershells beach in Destin‚ Florida for a week each summer. I remember that once you had to endure the ten hour drive down there‚ the paradise that was waiting always made it worth it. I suppose that Destin’s trademark was the smell of Banana Boat suntan lotion that lingered in the lobby of the condo. This is the most heavily air-conditioned room without a doubt. The Victorian-style architecture pillars fell in the middle of the room. Once you’re
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eight days. I crept out of the room quietly and tried to make my way through the cottage without waking the Bertram family. I stepped outside and onto the silky sand that seemed to stretch on forever. I jogged to one of the beach’s most powdery sand dunes and jumped in feet first‚ sand rising around my shins. Running the sand through my fingers as if to tell if it were real‚ I was deep in thought. Whether or not I was dead and this was heaven was probably my
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The Hardest Lesson The year two thousand eight was the hardest year of my life‚ the year I lost the one thing that meant the most to me and the one thing that could never be replaced. It all started with an argument with my father I was fourteen at the time and was hard-headed and arrogant. I thought I could make my own money to help support the family; my father had been laid off of work the year before. When he found this out he was furious with me‚ he didn’t understand why I would do such a
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Lake Michigan is the world’s third largest lake by surface area. It is the world’s sixth largest lake. Though we consider Lake Michigan and Lake Huron separate lakes‚ because they are connected by the straights of Mackinaw‚ by definition they are considered one lake (great-lakes.net). Michigan is more than four million years ago‚ glaciers covered and moved across what is now the United States Mid-West. Michigan experienced the last great ice sheet. This glacier was a mile thick and four million
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Subject: Harbor Dunes Golf Course Problem Statement: Harbor Dunes Golf Course was recently honored as one of the top public golf courses in South Carolina. Harbor Dunes targets the upper end golf market and in the peak spring golfing season‚ charges fees of $160 per person and golf cart fees of $20 per person. Under their current plans‚ Harbor Dunes is able to sell a maximum of 20 afternoon tee times. Harbor Dunes was able to sell every morning tee time available for every day last spring golf
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This method was effective in calming me down literally every time. He may or may not have been making them up‚ but he was my hero. Remembering the days by the seaside put a smile on my face. When my grandfather would bury me in the sand‚ make sand dunes and sand castles for me‚ but most importantly‚ I
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In Abe’s novels‚ plot and character are usually subservient to idea and symbol. This makes The Woman in the Dunes something of an anomaly. Its plot is devious‚ addictive yet straightforward. An amateur entomologist arrives in a remote area of sand dunes with hopes of identifying a type of sand beetle. Night falls and the villagers offer him shelter in a ramshackle house at the bottom of a funnel-shaped pit of sand. Descent is possible only by means of a rope ladder. The occupant of the house‚ a young
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