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Back-barrier beach
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A narrow, elongate, intertidal, sloping landform that is generally parallel with the shoreline located on the lagoon or estuary side of the barrier island, or spit. compare - barrier island. sss
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Back-barrier flat, английский
A subaerial, gently sloping landform on the lagoon side of the barrier beach ridge composed predominantly of sand washed over or through the beach ridge during tidal surges; a portion of a barrier flat. compare - washover-fan flat. sss part 629 - glossary 629-9 (430-vi-nssh, 2008)
Beach, английский
- A geological landform along the shoreline of a body of water, consisting of loose particles composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobble, or of shell fragments or coralline algae fragments.
- Волногаситель
- A littoral margin, or line of coast along the sea-shore, composed of sand, gravel, shingle, broken shells, or a mixture of them all: any gently sloping part of the coast alternately dry and covered by the tide. the same as strand.
- [1] sandy or pebbly strip of shore between low and high water marks; sometimes extending inland to the point where topography changes or vegetation begins. from the anglo-saxon bece = brook or stream. [2] to run a ship aground. [3] the section of shore designated for amphibious landing (e.g., gold, juno, sword, omaha, and utah beaches, in normandy june 1944). [4] the beach is a mariners’ term for land.
Beach (-) head, английский
Переворот (в технике и т.п.); новый принцип
Beach barrier, английский
Beach boys, английский
Beach break, английский
Песчаный гребень = пригодный для виндсерфинга берег, где волны создаются или испытывают на себе воздействие донных песчаных гребней.
Beach cat, английский
Small trailerable catamaran, usually 12- 20’ long (such as the hobie cat)
Beach concentrate, английский
Beach deposit, английский
Beach drift, английский
Beach marker, английский
Colored dye, panel, or other device delineating the specified limit of an amphibious landing beach.
Beach marks, английский
Beach mining, английский
Beach netting, английский
Steel mesh laid on an amphibious landing beach to improve the traction of vehicles.
Beach ore, английский
Beach party, английский
The naval personnel in a landing party.
Beach placer, английский
Beach plain, английский
A continuous and level or undulating area formed by closely spaced successive embankments of wave-deposited beach material added more or less uniformly to a prograding shoreline, such as to a growing compound spit or to a cuspate foreland. compare - wave-built terrace, chenier plain. gg
Beach prism, английский
Beach ranger, английский
[1] a term formerly applied to a seaman who had been discharged for bad conduct but continued to hang around the waterfront. [2] a term sometimes applied to waterfront prostitutes.
Intertidal, английский
- The intertidal zone is the region of land which is submerged during high tide and exposed during low tide.
- Between mean high water and mean low water.
- (adjective) the coastal environment between mean low tide and mean high tide that alternates between subaerial and subaqueous depending on the tidal cycle. compare - subtidal. sss
- The coastal zone measuring from the lowest to the highest tide mark. the intertidal zone is subject to alternating periods of flooding and drying.
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Back-barrier flat, английский
A subaerial, gently sloping landform on the lagoon side of the barrier beach ridge composed predominantly of sand washed over or through the beach ridge during tidal surges; a portion of a barrier flat. compare - washover-fan flat. sss part 629 - glossary 629-9 (430-vi-nssh, 2008)
B) (not preferred, английский
Refer to u-shaped valley): (relict) - landforms or sediments formed, modified or deposited by a glacier in or on mountains or high hills that has since melted away. compare - glacial-valley floor, glacial-valley wall. sw
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