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Ingression
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Ingression 

the penetration of low-lying coastal land by seawater when the sea level rises or the shore submerges. Ingres-sive shores, characterized by broken coastlines, form as a result of ingression. Depending on the origin of the low-lying areas, the shores are classified as glacial, fluvial, eolian, and structuraldenudational.



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A Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean and Red Sea areas restricted marine Neogene deposits to limited ingressions into the edge of the mountain range, with Lower Miocene carbonates transgressing onto older deposits.
These results are interpreted in terns of Jespersen's (1917) negation cycle, to the effect that Scandinavian varieties were in advance of early English on the negation cycle, were losing NC at the time of the Scandinavian ingressions into England, and that their influence on Northern Middle English contributed to the weakening of NC earlier in the North than in the rest of England.
Finally, Beroalde's style encourages the transmutation of topics by ingressions of questions that push self-reflexivity to self-destructive fusion.
 
 
 
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