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foreshore: see beach beach, a gently sloping zone where deposits of unconsolidated sediments are subject to wave action at the shore of an ocean or lake. Most of the sediment making up a beach is supplied by rivers or by the erosion of highlands adjacent to the coast.
..... Click the link for more information. . foreshore 1. the part of the shore that lies between the limits for high and low tides 2. the part of the shore that lies just above the high-water mark foreshore [′fȯr‚shȯr] (geology) The zone that lies between the ordinary high- and low-watermarks and is daily traversed by the rise and fall of the tide. Also known as beach face. Foreshore a strip of low-lying shore along tidal seas in a tidal-flat zone. A foreshore forms through the accumulation of fine-sand and silt alluviums that result from differences in the speed and duration of the tides. It gradually grows in width and height until it becomes a surface that is flooded only during high spring tides. Foreshores occur on the shallow margins of tideless seas (such as the Caspian and Aral) as the result of wind-driven waves. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The lightless walls seem to spring from the very mud upon which the stranded barges lie; and the narrow lanes coming down to the foreshore resemble the paths of smashed bushes and crumbled earth where big game comes to drink on the banks of tropical streams. It was built originally for a coastguard station and meant to hold a lifeboat, but they found they could never launch the lifeboat when they had it, so the man to whom all the foreshore and most of the land around here belongs - a Mr. Poole Harbour was dry, which led her to praise the absence of muddy foreshore at Friedrich Wilhelms Bad, Rugen, where beech-trees hang over the tideless Baltic, and cows may contemplate the brine. |
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