Backshore

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-002644",
  "term": "Backshore",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The upper part of the active beach above the normal reach of the tides (high water), but affected by large waves occurring during a high.\n\n2. The upper or inner zone of the shore or beach that is above the high-water line of mean spring tides and below the upper limit of shore-zone processes. The backshore is usually dry or moistened by spray, and is acted upon by waves (or covered by water) only during exceptionally severe storms or unusually high tides. It is essentially horizontal or slopes gently landward, and it is divided from the foreshore by the crest of the most seaward berm.",
  "references": [
    "NOAA Coastal Services Center Glossary of Coastal Terminology",
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/backshore/"
}