beach plain

beach plain
   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.
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Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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