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    Lower shoreface refers to the portion of the seafloor, and the sedimentary depositional environment, that lies below the everyday wave base. The wave...
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  • Shoreface may refer to: The upper shoreface of a seafloor The lower shoreface of a seafloor This article includes a list of related items that share the...
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    shoreface refers to the portion of the seafloor that is shallow enough to be agitated by everyday wave action, the wave base. Below that is the lower...
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    Since wave action is heavier, bioturbation is not likely. Lower shoreface The lower shoreface is constantly affected by wave action. This results in development...
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    zone not disturbed by any surface wave. (e.g. ) Upper shoreface — above wave base Lower shoreface — below wave base Airy wave theory Dispersion (water...
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    (elsewhere) Upper shoreface – Portion of the seafloor that is shallow enough to be agitated by everyday wave action Lower shoreface – Part of the seafloor...
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    between the upper and lower shoreface, hypothesising that sediment is eroded from the lower shoreface and transported to the upper shoreface to maintain an equilibrium...
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    environment it seems that it was the only species. Inaria was found in lower shoreface muds. Australia Post issued a 50 cent stamp featuring Inaria on 21...
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    environments. The bioturbated, fine-grained facies are interpreted as lower shoreface deposits influenced by tidal fluctuations and storms. The coarser,...
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    Grand Banks area. Widely faulted and moderately rotated Upper Triassic to Lower Cretaceous beds within the rift basin were subsequently buried beneath a...
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    beach sand, high water energy marine upper shoreface sand, intermediate water energy marine lower shoreface sand, and deeper low energy marine silt and...
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  • trends in molluscan paleoecology in storm-generated shell beds from the lower shoreface deposits of the Pliocene Dainichi Formation, Kakegawa Group, central...
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  • what Glover and Robertson described as "lag concentrations within the lower shoreface zone, possibly a result of accumulation in hollows, or as storm deposits"...
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    Group. The thin section analysis led to the interpretation of a shoreface to lower shoreface environment, in the internal parts of a carbonate platform, where...
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    abigarradas member of the Paja Formation. This formation preserves a shoreface to lower shoreface environment with a great diversity of marine reptiles including...
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    and soil Longshore drift – Sediment moved by the longshore current Lower shoreface – The portion of the seafloor, and the sedimentary depositional environment...
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  • specimens were found was determined to be a shallow sea in a clastic lower shoreface. This specific genera are categorized as Ediacara-type fossils from...
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    Fezouata Formation (category Lower Ordovician Series)
    fossiliferous strata were deposited just above storm wave base (offshore to lower shoreface transition), at between 50 and 150 metres (160 and 490 ft) water depth...
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  • El Matal Member (60 metres (200 ft), fluvial) Punta Ballena Member (lower shoreface) Punta Pasa Borracho Member (20 metres (66 ft), marine) The formation...
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    to lower shoreface environments, indicating a deepening trend. In the Younger Levesquei subzone, delta plain environments were replaced by shoreface setting...
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  • up): Middle Gharif unit 1 is less than 10 meters thick and represents shoreface, tidal flat, lagoonal and mixed paralic environments. Middle Gharif unit...
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    Ahançal Group) is a geological group of formations of Toarcian-Aalenian (Lower Jurassic-Middle Jurassic) age in the Azilal, Béni-Mellal, Imilchil, Zaouiat...
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    part because of the hydrographic impacts of hard armoring of a sandy shoreface and permafrost degradation that is accelerated by infrastructure.[citation...
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    NetLinks. Retrieved March 30, 2011. Short, A. (1999) Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Ch 7. MEDUS. (2011) Marine Engineering...
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  • depositional environment from subaqueous fans, through fan deltas and shoreface to delta plain. The uppermost Tarbert formation may represent reworked...
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    involved directly placing sand on the beach and dunes. Since then more shoreface nourishments have been carried out, which rely on the forces of the wind...
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  • Petroleum Geology, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 27-37. Keighley, D. 2008. A lacustrine shoreface succession in the Albert Formation, Moncton Basin, New Brunswick. Bulletin...
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    water is termed the shoreface and is the zone where the seafloor slows down the swells by friction, so that the surf ends up being lower than it otherwise...
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    "Embayed and Structurally Controlled Beaches". Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 231–250. ISBN 978-0471965701...
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  • formation. The lower and middle part of the formation consists of braided river sandstone, while the upper portion consists of upper shoreface to inner shelf...
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