Backshore Sentence Examples
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This is a wide sandy beach with a narrow backshore berm of coarser sediment supplied from local erosion of high sandstone and breccia cliffs.
This normally involves foreshore erosion and, less frequently, the creation of a high backshore storm berm.
Rapid loss of beach volume necessitated the building of a seawall founded on the backshore gravel beach berm to protect the town/village in 1830.
In places the lower cliffs, backshore and cliff crevices are influenced by freshwater seepages, flushes and springs.
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