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raised beach
noun
- a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
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I have resided one season on a raised beach of the Moray Firth.
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In the vicinity a good example of raised beach, some 10 ft. above present sea-level, is to be seen.
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Ten miles south of it a raised beach again occurs 100 feet above the level of the sea.
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Nina F. Layard has recently studied the Larne raised beach and exposed a new section.
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At Paita, the most western point of South America, there is a raised beach three hundred feet high.
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