shoreface

[′shȯr‚fās]

(geology)

The narrow, steeply sloping zone between the seaward limit of the shore at low water and the nearly horizontal offshore zone.

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While the Torok Formation was deposited on the floor of the deep basin, the younger Nanushuk Formation was deposited in shallow water and includes potential reservoirs in deltaic, shoreface, and fluvial sandstones.

Booming Interest in Nanushuk: Major players explore the formation's production potential

The conglomerate and sandstone lithofacies associations were deposited by channels and shoreface processes, whereas coastal processes in delta-plain setting deposited overbank fines lithofacies association (including coal).

MIXED SILICICLASTIC-CARBONATE TERTIARY DELTAIC DEPOSITS IN A PULL-APART BASIN, EASTERN OMAN

Stratigraphic trends in molluscan paleoecology in storm-generated shell beds from the lower shoreface deposits of the Pliocene Dainichi Formation.

PREDATION ON BIVALVES ON A SANDY BEACH IN SOMA, JAPAN

Forms intervals that range in thickness from 20 cm to 2.5 m Depositional Facies Structure/fossil/ setting/ code mineralogy Environment Sm Massive, over 90% Shoreface setting/ quartz, >5% feldspars, Shallow marine micas and rock fragments.

Cretaceous-Tertiary Foraminifera and Palynomorphs from Djega Section and Inferred Paleodepositional Environments, Rio Del Rey Basin, Cameroon, West Africa

The Glen Falls Formation--an example of a barrier island retreated by shoreface erosion.

U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry from the northeastern New River belt, southern New Brunswick, Canada: significance of the Almond Road Group to the Ganderian platformal margin

Importance of shoreface sand ridges as habitat for fishes off the northeast coast of the United States.

Spring occurrence of fish and macro-invertebrate assemblages near designated wind energy areas on the northeast U.S. continental shelf

1996), shoreface shelf (Hallam & Swett 1966; McKie 1990; Prave 1991; Simpson et al.

First description of Skolithos burrows from the Cambrian--Ordovician boundary interval of the Central Anti-Atlas, Morocco/Maroko Anti-Atlase Kambriumi--Ordoviitsiumi piirikihtides esinevate Skolithos'e kaikude esmakirjeldus

Al-Aasm, "Distribution of diagenetic alterations in siliciclastic shoreface deposits within a sequence stratigraphic framework: evidence from the Upper Jurassic, Boulonnais, NW France," Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol.

Origin and Distribution of Carbonate Cement in Tight Sandstones: The Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation Chang 8 Oil Layer in West Ordos Basin, China

These sediments correspond to very shallow upper shoreface to foreshore carbonate environments.

Strontium isotopes and sedimentology of a marine triassic succession (upper ladinian) of the westernmost Tethys, Spain

The influence of cryogenic processes on the erosional Arctic shoreface. Journal of Coastal Research 24(1):110-121.

Exposure to coastal hazards in a rapidly expanding northern urban centre, Iqaluit, Nunavut

At the time of deposition of Winameg and Lyle's ridges, this area would have been the shallow shoreface of the early Lake Maumee (Figs.