The grassy marine terrace that dropped to the shoreline was too open to go onto without Burton noticing.

Suddenly the sound of a wailing Blues guitar came screaming over the marine terrace.

The marine terraces cut into the sandstone have left traces that point to 70 million years of geologic time.

Thus a marine terrace can be formed by both erosion and accumulation.

Moreover individual marine terraces can be correlated based on their size and continuity.

Thus marine terraces also provide information for the research on climate change and trends in future sea level changes.

The real danger lies in a too enthusiastic recording of very doubtful features as marine terraces.

There are other difficulties encountered in the study of the higher marine terraces.

A marine terrace represents the former shoreline of a sea or ocean.

Fluctuating sea levels during the Neogene has created three marine terraces.