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Paywall blocking that link, EZ.


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Paywall blocking that link, EZ.

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It comes up when I tap the link. . It is from Architectural Digest.




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Probably so, EZ! He's a genius certifiably from what I have read about this man. I love it that he gives most of his money away and lives in a tiny little ranch home in Texas. He is totally not trying to keep up with the Jones' as they say. No greed at all and keeps it simple.

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Offshore formations I spoke of. This is RWS which has the most.




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Buxton.




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The orientation of those ridges and a south to north flow of water can starve the shoreline of migrating sand. A north to south flow of water helps return sand to the shoreline.




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Offshore formations I spoke of. This is RWS which has the most.

Greg MD

You can throw away any depth charts off the coast of the OBX. The sands shift so much that they are useless the day after they are published. You're also only pointing out a different of a couple feet?


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That's the point, in contrast to the sandy shifty sea bottom, these shoals are fixed pretty much in place by the underlying ground.


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That's the point, in contrast to the sandy shifty sea bottom, these shoals are fixed pretty much in place by the underlying ground.

johnbt

Yes, those formations are hard, as you have discovered. So have many ships when they had their keels cut open. The soundings are in meters, btw.


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Those are not hard structures. It's shifting sand. Sand, sand, and more sand.


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Nice try, dubs. Pick another thread to derail. I would recommend a good butt salve for your hurt, but I don't have any suggestions.


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Not sure what dubs is, but I can see you don't like admitting your wrong. That's ok, everyone can see it anyways.


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That's the point, in contrast to the sandy shifty sea bottom, these shoals are fixed pretty much in place by the underlying ground.

johnbt

Nope. The shoals (mainly made up of sand) migrate and change. Most definitely not fixed structures. They might however have an effect on erosion, but that's still not decided. This is a study done off Wimble Shoals (off of Rodanthe).

"Seismic-reflection and multibeam data were used to examine the morphology of Wimble Shoals , and a comparison of data from two different time period was conducted. Decadal- and century-scale bathymetric analyses showed that Wimble Shoals is migrating southward and has some control over the areas of accretion and erosion seen in the onshore environment. Wimble Shoals is composed of highstand systems tract and lowstand systems tract sands that overly a gently dipping Pleistocene surface. The sands that compose the shoals is medium to fine-sand which is useful for adjacent nourishment projects. It is estimated that Wimble Shoals could potentially be nourishment borrow source for over 100 nourishment projects , but multiple environmental , ecological , and cultural factors need to be considered before mining these shoals."



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If you keep liking your own posts, dubs you'll earn a star Laughing smiley


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If you keep liking your own posts, dubs you'll earn a star Laughing smiley

Greg MD

I'm guessing dubs must be some kinda slang, but most likely meant in a negative way. I'll take it as a complement though. Thanks!

No comment on being wrong about the "hard formations"? Of course not. You'd rather just call people names.


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That's the point, in contrast to the sandy shifty sea bottom, these shoals are fixed pretty much in place by the underlying ground.

johnbt

Yes, those formations are hard, as you have discovered. So have many ships when they had their keels cut open. The soundings are in meters, btw.

Greg MD


TY for keepin' this on topic....what's always struck me is that, traditional (what ever that may mean) thinking is that they'd act somewhat like an offshore (no land connection) jetty or scuttled ships/railroad cars and reduce velocity on the back (western side).


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"The ridges are composed in a fan-like arrangement, which are attached to shore with a connection point to the south and separating to the north. The subaqueous dunes atop the ridges are formed through varying current directions and speed from major storm events. The shoals consist of medium to fine sand atop of discontinuous layers of silt, mud, and gravel."
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That is one example of a description of Wimble Shoals. Sand on top of the hard ridge.Sand certainly comes and goes. The ridges appear to have been there quite some time. Not to say that a hurricane couldn't move buried gravel layers.

" ridges are composed in a fan-like arrangement, which are attached to shore with a connection point to the south and separating to the north. "

"...dunes atop the ridges..."

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" "This Chart of his Majesties Province of North Carolina", was the premier coastal chart of North Carolina during the late eighteenth century"

And on James Wimble's 1738 map his name only appears once.

"The only geographical feature in modern maps to include Wimble's name is Wimble Shoals, a dangerous sandbank north of Cape Hatteras, and is included in this map"


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How dare Elon buy a Gulfstream G700. He deserves to have dubs spew gossip about him. This used to be called the politics of envy.

dubs, you don’t really hate Elon, you hate that you ain’t Elon.

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How dare Elon buy a Gulfstream G700. He deserves to have dubs spew gossip about him. This used to be called the politics of envy.

dubs, you don’t really hate Elon, you hate that you ain’t Elon.

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ezbuckwheat

Just correcting the misinformation Bentmtn posted. I even said there's nothing wrong with him owning and buying stuff. Try to keep up EZ.

And again with the dubs slur. Laughing smiley


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"No comment on being wrong about the "hard formations"? Of course not. "

There are hard formations. Google is your friend if you don't believe what you read here.


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That is one example of a description of Wimble Shoals. Sand on top of the hard ridge.Sand certainly comes and goes. The ridges appear to have been there quite some time. Not to say that a hurricane couldn't move buried gravel layers.

johnbt

I guess you missed the part that "Decadal- and century-scale bathymetric analyses showed that Wimble Shoals is migrating southward". I promise you, those ridges are sand. That's the likely borrow spots if they do beach nourishment.


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