Sentences with phrase «wind and waves batter»

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Stroll the white sands of dog - friendly Carmel Beach, or explore a mosaic of meadows, wave - battered bluffs, and wind - twisted trees at nearby Point Lobos State Reserve.

Waves and wind carved them into caves, then arches, and eventually battered them down into 45 metre (150 foot) tall columns.

Such is the violence of the three massive canvases - mangled boats and rusted metal hulls with battered propellers, flung about in raging seas - that one almost expects to hear the wind and the waves he has tried to capture.

But with little ice and strong offshore winds, waves were able to batter the ice shelf, weakening it.

Huge waves have battered the coastline where storm surges created by a series of deep low pressure systems and strong winds blowing over thousands of kilometres combined with high tides.

At the coasts, strong winds, up to nearly hurricane force, will batter beaches with 20 - foot waves for three high tide cycles, prompting concern for severe beach erosion and major coastal flooding from Maryland to Massachusetts.

She was battered by both 35 - foot waves and near hurricane level winds - an extreme, rare weather event that suggests low - CO2 climate change at work.

There's little doubt that in the coming decades many offshore wind farms and wave farms will be built all around the world, and it's also painfully obvious that our battered oceans need marine protected areas and new reefs to regenerate themselves to a healthy state.