shore platform

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 283 words | Copyright

shore platform (marine platform, marine terrace, marine flat, marine bench, wave-cut bench, wave-cut platform) Intertidal bench cut into a land mass by the action of waves and associated processes. It is terminated landward by a sea cliff, and slopes gently seaward at about 1°.

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