Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd.
 Scientific Research, Consultancy and Investigations

              
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Shingle Barriers
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The Dunwich-Walberswick shingle barrier, Suffolk,  in June 2006 (left), and again in November 2006 (right) after
breaching by a storm on 31 October to 1 November 2006.

    
Tidal channel formed following storm-breaching of the        The narrow neck of Orford Ness spit, Suffolk, the
Dunwich-Walberswick shingle barrier, Suffolk                   North Sea to the left and River Alde-Ore to the right.

Ground penetrating radar survey of a shell chenier ridge,
Foulness Island, Essex

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Recent Publications

Pye, K. and Blott, S.J. (2006). Coastal processes and morphological change in the Dunwich - Sizewell area, Suffolk, UK. Journal of Coastal Research 22, 453-473.
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Pontee, N.I., Pye, K. and Blott, S.J. (2004). Morphodynamic behaviour and sedimentary variation of mixed sand and gravel beaches, Suffolk, UK. Journal of Coastal Research 20, 256-276.
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Neal, A., Richards, J. and Pye, K. (2003). Sedimentology of coarse-clastic beach-ridge deposits, Essex, southeast England. Sedimentary Geology 162, 167-198.
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Neal, A., Pontee, N., Pye, K. and Richards, J. (2002). Internal structure of mixed-sand-and-gravel beach deposits revealed using ground-penetrating-radar. Sedimentology 49, 789-804.
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Neal, A., Richards, J. and Pye, K. (2002). Structure and development of shell cheniers in Essex, southeast England, investigated using high frequency ground-penetrating radar. Marine Geology 185, 435-469.
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Pye, K. (2001) The nature and geomorphology of coastal shingle. In: Packham, J., Randell, R., Barnes, D. and Neal, A. (Eds.) Ecology and Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle. Smith Settle, Harrogate, pp. 2-22.

Richards, J. and Pye, K. (2001). The cheniers of the Essex coast: sedimentology and management for flood defence. In: Packham, J., Randell, R., Barnes, D. and Neal, A. (Eds.) Ecology and Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle. Smith Settle, Harrogate, pp. 167-171.

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