Beach ridge
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A beach ridge is a
littoral transport. Movement of material parallel to the shoreline is called longshore transport. Movement perpendicular to the shore is called on-offshore transport. A beach ridge may be capped by, or associated with, sand dunes
. The height of a beach ridge is affected by wave size and energy.
A fall in water level (or an uplift of land) can isolate a beach ridge from the body of water that created it. Isolated beach ridges may be found along dry lakes in the western
glacial melting relieved pressure on land masses and resulted in subsequent crustal lifting or post-glacial rebound. A rise in water level can submerge beach ridges created at an earlier stage, causing them to erode
and become less distinct.
Beach ridges can become routes for roads and trails, like in the case of the west coast in the
peatland. Numerous settlements emerged here, some of them developed in large populous centers, like The Hague, Haarlem and Alkmaar
.
See also
- Berm (landform)
- Beach
- Chenier
- Isostasy
- Machair
- Marine terrace
- Strand plain
Sources
- "Water Resource Availability in the Maumee River Basin, Indiana" (PDF). Water Resource Assessment 96–5. Indianapolis: Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water: 191. 1996. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2007. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Forsyth, Jane L. (1959). The Beach Ridges of Northern Ohio (PDF). Columbus: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Information Circular 25. (out of print).
- "Great Lakes Information Network: Great Lakes Shoreline Geology". Archived from the original on March 4, 2006.