raised beach

British  

noun

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

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raised beach

And beach dunes flattened by Hurricane Laura in August and Tropical Storm Beta last month allowed storm surge to reach beneath the raised beach houses in Galveston’s West End.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020

Beach dunes flattened by earlier storms allowed storm surge to reach beneath some of Galveston’s raised beach houses.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020

The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Generally the raised beach rests on the original rock, and consists of rolled stones, frequently of large size, mixed with smaller gravel and sand.

From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Dead coral was found on the western side, ten feet above high-water mark, a fact which in some measure supports what I have stated in connection with the raised beach on Cape Upstart.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort