raised beach
Britishnoun
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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
In one place a raised beach with marine littoral shells, and in another immediately adjoining a submerged forest.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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
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