raised beach

noun

a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level

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How to use raised beach in a sentence

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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 | Various
Ten miles south of it a raised beach again occurs 100 feet above the level of the sea.
Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. | J Lort Stokes
Nina F. Layard has recently studied the Larne raised beach and exposed a new section.
Man, Past and Present | Agustus Henry Keane
At Paita, the most western point of South America, there is a raised beach three hundred feet high.
The Andes and the Amazon | James Orton

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