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Wave-cut platform — Wave cut platform. In this case, alternating hard and soft layers have been folded up vertically and eroded by the tides, resulting in a regular ripple pattern at the surface. A wave cut platform, or shore platform is the narrow flat area often… … Wikipedia
Beach evolution — The shoreline is where the land meets the sea and it is continually changing. Over the long term, the water is eroding the land. Beaches represent a special case, in that they exist where sand accumulated from the same processes that strip away… … Wikipedia
wave — waveless, adj. wavelessly, adv. wavingly, adv. wavelike, adj. /wayv/, n., v., waved, waving. n. 1. a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell. 2. any surging or progressing movement … Universalium
Wave — /wayv/, n. a member of the Waves. Also, WAVE. [1942; see WAVES] * * * I In oceanography, a ridge or swell on the surface of a body of water, normally having a forward motion distinct from the motions of the particles that compose it. Ocean waves… … Universalium
wave-built terrace — A gently sloping coastal feature at the seaward or lakeward edge of a wave cut platform, constructed by sediment brought by rivers or drifted along the shore or across the platform and deposited in the deeper water beyond. Compare:… … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
wave-worked till plain — A glaciated land area that has the characteristics of a till plain, but that was also inundated by a glacial lake. The area possesses a gently undulating till topography rather than a distinctive, low relief lake plain surface. Lacustrine… … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
beach terrace — a) A landform that consists of a wave cut scarp and wave built terrace of well sorted sand and gravel of marine and lacustrine origin. b) (colloquial: western USA) relict shorelines from pluvial lakes, generally restricted to valley sides … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
Beach Boulevard (Hamilton, Ontario) — Beach Boulevard is a Lower city street in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, north of the Hamilton Harbour on a thin piece of land that crosses over Lake Ontario and stretches from Confederation Park in the east to the Lift Bridge in the west at Eastport … Wikipedia
Wave of Mutilation (Southland Tales) — Infobox Film name = Southland Tales caption = Promotional poster for Southland Tales director = Richard Kelly producer = Sean McKittrick Bo Hyde Kendall Morgan writer = Richard Kelly starring = Dwayne The Rock Johnson Seann William Scott Sarah… … Wikipedia
Wind wave — Ocean wave redirects here. For the film, see Ocean Waves (film). North Pacific storm waves as seen from the NOAA M/V Noble Star, Winter 1989 … Wikipedia
Raised beach — Definition A raised beach or a marine terrace is an emergent coastal landform. Raised beaches and marine terraces are beaches or wave cut platforms raised above the shore line by a relative fall in the sea level. Around the world, the combination … Wikipedia
