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Coast shaped by penetration of the sea
An ingression coast, the
Archipelago Sea
off
Naantali
(
Finland
)
An
ingression coast
or
depressed coast
is a generally level
coastline
that is shaped by the penetration of the
sea
as a result of
crustal movements
or a rise in the
sea level
.
Such coasts are characterised by a
subaerially
formed
relief
that has previously experienced little deformation by
littoral
(
tidal
) processes, because the sea level, which had fallen by more than 100 metres during the
last glacial period
, did not reach its current level until about 6,000 years ago.
Depending on the
geomorphological
shaping of the flooded
landform
? e.g.
glacially
or
fluvially
formed relief ? various types of ingression coast emerge, such as
rias
,
skerry
and
fjard
coasts as well as
forde
and
bodden
coasts.
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References
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- ^
Leser, Hartmut, ed. (2005).
Worterbuch Allgemeine Geographie
, 13th ed., dtv, Munich, p. 381.
ISBN
978-3-423-03422-7
.