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  2. Wave-cut platform - Wikipedia

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    Wave-cut platform at Southerndown, South Wales, UK. A wave-cut platform, shore platform, coastal bench, or wave-cut cliff is the narrow flat area often found at the base of a sea cliff or along the shoreline of a lake, bay, or sea that was created by erosion. Wave-cut platforms are often most obvious at low tide when they become visible as huge ...

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    File:Wavecut platform small.jpg Downsampled to 1595x800, virtually no detail loss, but got rid of edge (compression) effects and softness, image is still large enough. A composite of three images taken from the coastal path at Southerndown. It's a little soft at full resolution, but I think this is a good illustration of wave-cut platform ...

  4. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Truncated spur – Ridge that descends towards a valley floor or coastline that is cut short; Tor – Large, free-standing rock outcrop on a gentle hill summit; Valley – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it; Wave-cut platform – Narrow flat area created by erosion; Wind gap – Topographic gap made by a former waterway

  5. Bench (geology) - Wikipedia

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    These benches are typically referred to as either "coastal benches," "wave-cut benches," or "wave-cut platforms." [2] [3] In mining, a bench is a narrow, strip of land cut into the side of an open-pit mine. These step-like zones are created along the walls of an open-pit mine for access and mining. [1]

  6. Terrace (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A marine terrace represents the former shoreline of a sea or ocean. It can be formed by marine abrasion or erosion of materials comprising the shoreline (marine-cut terraces or wave-cut platforms); the accumulations of sediments in the shallow-water to slightly emerged coastal environments (marine-built terraces or raised beach); or the bioconstruction by coral reefs and accumulation of reef ...

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  8. Abrasion (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Abrasion platforms are shore platforms where wave action abrasion is a prominent process. If it is currently being fashioned, it will be exposed only at low tide, but there is a possibility that the wave-cut platform will be hidden sporadically by a mantle of beach shingle (the abrading agent).

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    TIL huge rogue waves were dismissed as a scientifically implausible sailors' myth by scientists until one 84ft wave hit an oil platform. The phenomenon has since been proven mathematically and ...