| 单词 | shore face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshore face shore face n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > slope made by waves shore face1912 1912 J. Barrell in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XXIII. 385 The shore face is the relatively narrow slope developed by the breaking waves, a slope which separates the subaerial plain above from the subaqueous below. 1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xiv. 291 In appropriate circumstances some of the sediment in transit across the wave-cut platform accumulates in the deeper water beyond, to form a shoreface terrace which grows forward like a broad embankment with its upper surface in smooth continuity with the platform. 1972 Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst.) 654/2 Shoreface,..the narrow, rather steeply sloping zone seaward or lakeward from the low-water shoreline, permanently covered by water, and over which beach sands and gravels actively oscillate with changing wave conditions. < as lemmas |
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