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from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, a term applied to forms produced by the erosive action of waves.
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Matabililand and the meaning of terminal moraine, oxbow lakes and wave-cut platforms, I was actually staring out of the window and listening to the mastodons calling to one another across the prehistoric landscape.
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This wave-cut platform, which normally extends about half a mile from shore, is nearly two miles wide west of Ozette Lake.
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For most of the coast between Cape Flattery and Point Grenville these cliffs rise abruptly 50 to 300 feet above a wave-cut platform.
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The series of eight caves are wave-cut shelters on the highest shoreline of pluvial Lake Chewaucan, which rose and fell in periods of greater precipitation during the Pleistocene.
Archive 2008-04-01 Staq Mavlen 2008
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The series of eight caves are wave-cut shelters on the highest shoreline of pluvial Lake Chewaucan, which rose and fell in periods of greater precipitation during the Pleistocene.
Oldest Human Coprolite Found Staq Mavlen 2008
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"I thought this break in slope was one of the old wave-cut benches from Lake Bonneville,"
Fault Line Andrews, Sarah 2002
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This fact is evident from the width of the wave-cut terrace, which is the most prominent of all those that mark the old levels along the sides of the mountains.
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Along some coasts old wave-cut cliffs stand hundreds of feet above the present ocean level.
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Thus old strand lines with sea cliffs, wave-cut rock benches, and beaches of wave-worn pebbles or sand, are striking proofs of recent emergence to the amount of their present height above tide.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The backwash carries the rubble towards the sea forming a wave-cut platform.
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