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raised beach

noun

  1. a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I have resided one season on a raised beach of the Moray Firth.

In the vicinity a good example of raised beach, some 10 ft. above present sea-level, is to be seen.

Ten miles south of it a raised beach again occurs 100 feet above the level of the sea.

Nina F. Layard has recently studied the Larne raised beach and exposed a new section.

At Paita, the most western point of South America, there is a raised beach three hundred feet high.

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