Wave-Built Terrace

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-030206",
  "term": "Wave-Built Terrace",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A subaqueous, relict, depositional landform originally constructed by river or longshore, sediment deposits along the outer edge of a wave-cut platform, and then later submerged by rising sea level or subsiding land surface (modified from Jackson 1997).",
  "references": [
    "Federal Geographic Data Committee Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard, June 2012 FGDC-STD-018-2012"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/wave-built-terrace/"
}