- BEACHES, RAISED
- elevated lands, formerly sea beaches, the result of upheaval, or left high by the recession of the sea, evidenced to be such by the shells found in them and the nature of the débris.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BEACHES, RAISED
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