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Continental Shore Complex

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-006393

This feature includes the land-water interface zone and contains geoforms across a diversity of scales. For CMECS, the supratidal zone forms the landward limit of geoforms found within the shore complex setting. This setting does not include the land-water interface along tidal rivers that may extend a considerable distance inland.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-006393
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesFederal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-006393",
  "term": "Continental Shore Complex",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "This feature includes the land-water interface zone and contains geoforms across a diversity of scales. For CMECS, the supratidal zone forms the landward limit of geoforms found within the shore complex setting. This setting does not include the land-water interface along tidal rivers that may extend a considerable distance inland.",
  "references": [
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/continental-shore-complex/"
}

Record 6,393 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.