marine terrace

marine terrace

      a rock terrace formed where a sea cliff, with a wave-cut platform (q.v.) before it, is raised above sea level. Such terraces are found in California, Oregon, Chile, and Gibraltar and in New Zealand and other islands of the Pacific.

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