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Shore Complex

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-025470

Generally a narrow, elongate area that parallels a coastline - commonly cutting across diverse inland landforms. Shore complexes are dominated by landforms derived from active coastal processes that give rise to beach ridges, washover fans, beaches, dunes, wave-cut platforms, barrier islands, cliffs, etc. (Schoeneberger and Wysocki 2005).

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-025470
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesFederal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025470",
  "term": "Shore Complex",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Generally a narrow, elongate area that parallels a coastline - commonly cutting across diverse inland landforms. Shore complexes are dominated by landforms derived from active coastal processes that give rise to beach ridges, washover fans, beaches, dunes, wave-cut platforms, barrier islands, cliffs, etc. (Schoeneberger and Wysocki 2005).",
  "references": [
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/shore-complex/"
}

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