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The raging sea merges with the stormy sky. The lightning strikes from behind heavy clouds. The waves splash against the high coast and flow down the rocks. The atmosphere of the storm and wrath of the sea is depicted with such power that the spectator can almost hear the crashing waves and the rolling thunder.
Wave pounding is the 'sledge hammer' effect of tonnes of water crashing against cliffs. It shakes and weakens the rocks leaving them open to attack from hydraulic action and abrasion. Eroded material gets carried away by the wave. Wave pounding is particularly fierce in a storm, where the waves are exceptionally large, and have a lot of energy ...
The best-known example in Germany is the Lange Anna on Heligoland, while, in England, a prominent example are Old Harry Rocks in Dorset. Ocean waves crashing against sea cliffs at Cape Pillar, Tasmania in Australia. Furthermore, on a rocky cliffed coast wave action is not the only driving force for coastline retreat.
Giant waves crashing against the harbour wall in Folkestone, Kent (Gareth Fuller/PA) Waves crashing at New Brighton beach, Wirral, amid Storm Jocelyn (Peter Byrne/PA)
Waves crash against the sea front in Southsea as Storm Barra hit the UK (Andrew Matthews/PA) Sea water floods the shoreline outside the Royal Oak pub after high tide in Langstone, Hampshire ...
Wild Weather is an oil on masonite painting by American artist Frederick Judd Waugh.The work depicts waves crashing over stark rock formations, and along with Roaring Forties is one of two seascapes by Waugh on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]
The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.
The boarded windows block the view of the ocean, but he can still hear the rumbling, followed by a few seconds of respite before another wave slams against the wall.