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Shingle beach, the Glossary

A shingle beach, also known as either a cobble beach or gravel beach, is a commonly narrow beach that is composed of coarse, loose, well-rounded, and waterworn gravel, called shingle.^[1]

23 relations: Argyll and Bute, Bahrain, Beach, Bedrock, Boulder, Braided river, Cobble (geology), Ecosystem, Endangered species, Europe, Glacier, Gravel, Great Britain, High Coast, Machair, New Zealand, Pebble, Post-glacial rebound, Quaternary, Rare species, Short Beach (Oregon), South Island, Storm beach.
Beaches

Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute (Argyll an Buit; Earra-Ghàidheal agus Bòd) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area.

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Bahrain

Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.

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Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. Shingle beach and beach are Beaches.

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Bedrock

In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.

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Boulder

In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter.

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A braided river (also called braided channel or braided stream) consists of a network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars or, in British English usage, aits or eyots.

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Cobble (geology)

A cobble (sometimes a cobblestone) is a clast of rock defined on the Udden–Wentworth scale as having a particle size of, larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Gravel

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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High Coast

The High Coast (Höga Kusten) is a part of the coast of Sweden on the Gulf of Bothnia, in the Ångermanland province of northeast Sweden, centered in the area of the municipalities of Kramfors, Härnösand, Sollefteå and Örnsköldsvik.

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Machair

A machair (sometimes machar in English) is a fertile low-lying grassy plain found on part of the northwest coastlines of Ireland and Scotland, in particular the Outer Hebrides. Shingle beach and machair are Coastal geography.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Pebble

A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of based on the Udden-Wentworth scale of sedimentology.

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Post-glacial rebound

Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression.

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Quaternary

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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Short Beach (Oregon)

Short Beach is a 1,000-meter stretch of beach on the northern Oregon Coast in the United States.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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Storm beach

A storm beach is a beach affected by particularly fierce waves, usually with a very long fetch. Shingle beach and storm beach are Beaches.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingle_beach

Also known as Gravel beach, Shingle beaches, Shingle coast, Shingle-bank, Shingle-banks, Shinglebank, Shinglebanks.