the cliffs were made of fairly soft material: sand and gravel. 

 At a place called Covehithe the cliffs rise in level from two or 

 three feet up to about 30 feet. Along a short stretch they 

 were cut back about 80 feet. At Dunwich where the cliffs are 

 equally soft they were not cut back an inch in the north part, 

 but farther south, about two miles, they were cut back about 

 a foot. The rapid variation in the amount of cliff erosion was 

 noticeable also in other places. It just bears on the curious 

 effect of severe storms on a partictilar coast. 



Morgan: I would like to make one more coinment that I should have 



made in closing, and that is that two days before I came down 

 here 1 made a point of flying over this area again to see what 

 it looked like so I could report on its present appearance. 

 After the storm, about nine months ago, the effects of the 

 damage are almost gone, indicating that all of this low coastal 

 area is more or less in equilibrium with hurricane conditions. 

 The only permanent damage was to the poor people who tried 

 to live there. Their houses are all destroyed. Trees were 

 blown over but as far as the general morphology is concerned 

 it is hard to find evidence of the hurricane unless you knew 

 that it had occurred and you could put your finger on a place 

 to look. 



Chronic: That is certainly a big mass of clay to be so thin. Don't you 



suppose that through the years it will gradually wash away and 

 be gone before it is covered? 



Morgan: No, it is strongly solidified in a very coherent mass. It is so 



fine-grained that wave action woiild have a hard time cutting 

 back into that portion which overlaps beach and marsh. 



Raup: Do you have any previous records ? 



Morgan: We have hurricanes about every year. I have gone through two 



of them in North Carolina, two of them in New England, and 

 four in Louisiana. This is the first one I have any actual data 

 on. 



Raup: We have evidence of four in our part of New England in the past 



5 00 years -- that is, evidence on the ground. I think perhaps 

 in New England you can see the effects more clearly. 



Steers: Dr. Raup, could you expand a little more ? I know you have 



done interesting work on this. 



Raup: We have been studying the effects of windthrow in our forest, 



and we have found that the evidence of windthrow is quite clear 

 for dating these great blows. The one in 1938 was the major 



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