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NORTHERLY VIEW: REMNANTS OF DAMAGED
SEAWALL IN MIDGROUND & SEVERE EROSION OF
BACK SHORE. NOTE THE NEWLY DUMPED
BLACKSAND (PHOTO: THRIVIKRAMJI)
Southerly view: Note the bluffs created by erosion & a crew
repairing seawall. Stored rock blocks on left foreground. Shore
face plastered with black sand
Northerly view. Ruins of seawall on left midground. Storage
of rock blocks on right foreground and a thatched house that
escaped fury of surge behind latter
Southerly view. Note new layer of sand that evened out
the ground on backshore. Sea to the right side.
No seawall withstands fury of storm surges. Seawall slumps due to erosion of the
foundation sediment and gives way for eroding waves. Southerly view
Southerly view. Severely eroded-deserted
beach. Note flatness of beach profile.
Southerly view. Note flatness of profile and newly piled up blacksand.
Northerly view. Note the impressive depositional surface
sedimentation break created by storm washover.
Southerly view. Washover deposit. KERI
monument stone in foreground
Current structure on bedding plane. Pen is 10.0 cm Water flow
toward left.
Storm surge deposit free area. Northerly view
Storm overwash
deposit. Note light
colour of sand.
Easterly view. Note
Kayal in distant
background
Easterly view. Closer up of previous scene.
Note shovel for scale
Southerly view. Eroded and
flattened beach face. Coconut
trees escaped uprooting
Note laminated storm surge deposit in the backshore.
Note abundance of blacksand in the deposit.
Note overprintd ripples on triangular (?) flow marks. Lens cap for scale.
Overwash deposit on backshore
Triangular flow marks on storm over wash deposit. Ruler 30 cm. Washover
deposit in backshore.
Massive grain flow deposit
devoid (?)of bedding planes.
Pit in Washover deposit,
Ruler marked in inch and cm.
Ripples in blacksand. White sand on the lee side. Pen
along ripple crest direction. Flow toward left
Lower flow regime plane bed on blacksand. Note scour on
the down flow side of lime shell.
Interesting picture. Lower flow regime plane bed mounded into ripples and
then showing erosion on the down flow side of shells
This baby boy followed us for a while. Perhaps his parents are victims of the
storm surge damage along with him. Interestingly we did not see any relief
workers anywhere during our foot work in the affected beaches.

He is protecting himself from sun by shading his eyes by one hand


wondering what in t he world we were doing.
Obviously it is early afternoon sunshine from west

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