A shingle beach is a beach which is armoured with pebbles or small to medium sized cobbles. Armor, in Hydrology and Geography is the association of surface Pebbles rocks or Boulders with Stream beds or Beaches Most A pebble is a clast of rock with a Particle size of 4 to 64 Millimeters based on the Krumbein phi scale of Sedimentology Typically the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes ranging from two to 200 millimeters in diameter. While this beach landform is most commonly associated with Western Europe, examples are found in Qatar, the United States and in a number of other world regions such as the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, where they are associated with the shingle fans of braided rivers. Western Europe at its most general meaning means 'all the countries in the West of Europe ' Qatar ( قطر; ˈqɑtˁɑr local pronunciation giṭar officially the State of Qatar (Arabic دولة قطر transliterated The United States of America —commonly referred to as the New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. Not to be confused with the River Braid Ballymena, Northern Ireland. The ecosytems formed by this unique association of rock and sand allow colonization by a variety of rare and endangered species. An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants animals and micro-organisms( Biotic factors in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical ( A rare species is an Organism which is very uncommon or scarce An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming Extinct because it is either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental or predation ^[1]

Notable examples

• Birdling's Flat, Canterbury, New Zealand
• Dungeness, England
• Hawar Islands, Qatar
• Herne Bay, Kent, England
• Alby, Öland, Sweden
• Short Beach, Oregon, USA

See also

• Storm beach
• Machair

Line notes

The New Zealand region of Canterbury (Waitaha is mainly composed of the Canterbury Plains and the surrounding mountains New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island See also Battle of Dungeness for the 1652 battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War Dungeness River for the river in Washington The Hawar Islands ( Arabic: جزر حوار transliterated: Juzur Ḩawār are a group of Islands situated off the west coast of Qatar in the Qatar ( قطر; ˈqɑtˁɑr local pronunciation giṭar officially the State of Qatar (Arabic دولة قطر transliterated Herne Bay is a seaside town in Kent, South East England, with a population of 35000 England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Alby is a Village on the Baltic Sea in the Hulterstad district at the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Short Beach is a 1000-meter stretch of beach on the northern Oregon Coast in the United States. A storm beach is a Beach affected by particularly fierce Waves usually with a very long fetch. This article is about a geographic landform For the TV series see Machair (TV series The Gaelic word machair or machar refers to a fertile

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