Obviously, these were more than just remnants of the wooden cribbing used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to extend the shoreline of Manhattan Island ever farther into the Hudson River.
The latest claim to have found the Hussar suggests that it might have come to rest under fill that was used to extend the shoreline off the South Bronx for more than a century.
What they dug up instead, he said, was garbage, animal carcasses, leather shoes, bottles, cannonballs, oyster shells, timber and other debris that had been dumped on the shore and used to extend the shoreline west over 300 years, to the other side of what is now West Street.
Extending their shoreline monitoring to the Lakes Erie and St. Clair, Zbyszewski et al. [[43]] report 0.2 to 8 items m−2.
Another problem: Some of the historic wharves — decks that extend the shoreline beyond the sea wall — are supported by brittle concrete columns that could collapse during shaking.
Despite later statements from Brundage that he avoided public works due to corruption, he built the 23rd Street viaduct as part of the South Shore Development project; Brundage's viaduct extended Chicago's shoreline into Lake Michigan at a cost of two million dollars.
Low-aspect-ratio wedges consist of numerous, amalgamated and offlapping, high-frequency sequences containing long, basinward-extended shoreline tongues that stack with flat to falling trajectories and unusually large proportion of tidally influenced facies.
About 22,000 years ago, when the Wisconsin glacier covered much of what is now Connecticut's shoreline, it extended 115 miles beyond the south shore of Long Island.
Damage to boats and shoreline structures extended from Acapulco to Manzanillo.
The remains of the ship were buried under landfill when the shoreline was extended starting in 1797, and were discovered during excavation work in 1916.
For one population Adelup Point blennies were also found along a man-made concrete wall that extended out from the shoreline into open water.
