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Definitions for "CUSPATE FORELAND"
Keywords:  seaward, coastline, drift, gravel, triangular
Related Terms: Barrier beach, Longshore bar, Spit, Backshore, Barrier island, Tidal flat, Mudflat, Seamount, Beach ridge, Oceanic, Continental shelf, Neritic, Shelf, Sand bar, Shoal, Fringing reef, Sea stack, Coastal erosion, Subtidal, Foreshore, Oceanic ridge, Littoral, Longshore drift, Intertidal zone, Fjord, Abyssal plain, Offshore, Sea-floor spreading, Beach, Littoral drift, Barrier reef, Atoll, Littoral zone, Oceanic trench, Neritic zone, Embayment, Longshore transport, Transgression, Reef, Abyssal, Tidal marsh, Coastal plain, Mid-ocean ridge, Outer continental shelf, Ocs, Pelagic zone, Continental margin, Shore, Regression
a complex depositional feature formed when longshore drift is from two directions, which meet to produce a series of ridges at right angles to each other
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A large, sandy cusp-shaped projection of the COAST. See Figure 5.
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(2126) - Seaward projection of accumulated unconsolidated marine sand or gravel, bounded on both sides by wave-dominated coasts (indicates convergence of currents in a low-tide environment).
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