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raised beach

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

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

Probably it is a raised beach, submerged until a comparatively recent period.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

On the top of the raised beach there were Aino hamlets, and occasionally a nearly overpowering stench came across the level from the sheds and apparatus used for extracting fish-oil.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

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