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Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
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A loose term for coarse beach material, a mixture of GRAVEL, PEBBLES and larger material, often well-rounded and of hard rock, e.g. chert, flint, etc.
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Coarse grained beach sediment dominated by gravel but including some sand. Shoreline One characteristic of the coast, often poorly defined, but essentially the interface between land and sea.
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Small, rounded, waterworn stones. Shingle is similar to gravel, but with the average size of stone generally larger.
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coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
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Accumulations of loose, usually rounded rocky material (mobile cobble and pebbles) where sediment particles are mostly 16-256 mm in diameter
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