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单词 cuspate foreland
释义
cuspate foreland

Geology and Earth Sciences
  • Large, triangular area of coastal deposition, which is dominated by many shingle ridges, and is often terminated landward by poorly drained terrain. It is the result of a long episode of local marine aggradation under wave advance from two dominant directions. Dungeness, on the south coast of England, is a typical example.

    cuspate foreland

    Cuspate foreland


Geography
  • An accretion of sand and shingle, shaped by longshore drift and constructive waves from two directions. See Roberts and Plater (2007) Holocene 17, 4.


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