wave-cut platform

Ancient wave-cut platforms provide evidence of past sea and lake levels.

It is also home to some spectacular cliffs and wave-cut platforms.

Wave-cut platforms are often most obvious at low tide when they become visible as huge areas of flat rock.

A wave-cut platform forms after erosion and retreat of a sea cliff has been occurring for a long time.

Gently sloping wave-cut platforms develop early on in the first stages of cliff retreat.

On the headland itself is evidence of erosional features, wave cut notch and a wave-cut platform.

There are also numerous wave-cut platforms.

When the arch collapses as the coastline recedes further a stack is left behind on the wave-cut platform.

Dark cliffs of folded, interbedded shales and mudstones form wave-cut platforms.

The ground on which the magazine was constructed was relatively flat due to "quaternary wave-cut platforms."

Duncans Point is an uplifted wave-cut platform.

In this way, it is possible to find former sea cliffs and associated wave-cut platforms hundreds of metres above present-day sea level.

This is evidenced by relict, Pleistocene wave-cut platforms and beach sediments that now lie well above current sea level.

The wave-cut platform is an example of a multi-scale fault system, with the phases of tectonic activity exposed at low tide.

Because of the continual wave action, a wave-cut platform represents an extremely hostile environment and only the toughest of organisms can utilize such a niche.

Raised beaches and marine terraces are beaches or wave-cut platforms raised above the shore line by a relative fall in the sea level.

All over Dongao are sea arches, sea gulfs, cliffs, and wave-cut platforms, and so on.

These include those who have come to dive, and those who have come to see the cliffs and wave-cut platforms.

Beneath the cliffs there is a large wave-cut platform (known as The Flats) and a rocky shore with rock pools and attendant ecology.

Beaches on the south coast usually consist of coarser sand and shingle, interspersed with rocky sections of wave-cut platform.

On one side of the island there are steep cliffs, below which is an amazing wave-cut platform, with jagged rocks, set at a 30-degree angle, like a staircase.

It's the best spot to enjoy the sights of costal landforms, such as sea arches, sea gulfs, cliffs, and wave-cut platforms.

Dramatic wave-cut platforms, exposed rocky cliffs, salt marsh, and sandy and rocky shores provide habitat for a wide range of species that inhabit Natural Bridges.

These benches are typically referred to as either "coastal benches," "wave-cut benches," or "wave-cut platforms."

'Ping ban'(坪笨) refers to a flat stone in Fuzhou dialect, characteristic of the wave-cut platforms coexisting with sea gulfs and sea stacks.