The New England-Acadian Shoreline |
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INITIAL FORM BORDERING RESISTANT UPLANDS | 3 |
RECTILINEAR SHORELINES | 18 |
INITIAL SHORELINES BORDERING WEAKROCK LOWLANDS | 59 |
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Acadian Amer appear areas Basin Bay of Fundy baymouth bars Beach belts Brunswick Cape Breton Cape Breton Island Cape Cod Carboniferous cliffed cliffs coast coastal plain crystalline upland cuesta cuspate bar depth drowned drumlin east embayment England England-Acadian erosion evidence Fathoms feet fjord Fundian Fault Gaspé Gaspé Peninsula Geological glacial débris Gulf of Maine Harbor Head headlands Hill initial shoreline inlet irregular Lake land mainland marine erosion marsh deposits moraine Mount Desert Nantasket Nova Scotia partially submerged peat peneplane Physiography Point post-glacial present Prince Edward Island rectilinear region Rept ridge River rock rocky salt marsh sand Scale of Miles scarp sealevel seaward Shaler shore Shoreline Development side silt slope Spartina patens spit subaërial submarine surface Surv Survey terrace tide tombolo topography Triassic Triassic Lowland U. S. Geol valleys wave action wave attack wave erosion weak-rock