An apposition beach is one of a series of roughly parallel beaches formed by successive accumulation of material on the seaward side of an older beach. The term was first used by Carey and Oliver (1918), and described as a beach in which “... the materials instead of continuing their course along an existing spit or other beach accumulate in front of it. With the advent of a gale oblique to the line of foreshore, such accumulations may be raised above tidal limits to form a bank parallel to the one previously in contact with the sea. Offshore gales often produce successive closely approximated parallel beaches. From the above causes apposition beaches come into existence and if the process be continued, very extensive ribbed areas of shingle are produced.”
An apposition beach, as defined by Carey and Oliver, is thus equivalent to a beach ridge (q.v.) of modern usage (Savage, 1959; Friedman and Sanders, 1978). The formation of a series of parallel or semiparallel apposition beaches, or...
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Carey, A. E., and Oliver, F. W., 1918. Tidal Lands: A Study of Shore Problems. London: Blackie and Sons, Ltd., 284p.
Friedman, G. M., and Sanders, J. E., 1978. Principles of Sedimentology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 792p.
Savage, R. P., 1959. Notes on the formation of beach ridges. Beach Erosion Board Bull. 13, 31–35.
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Rampino, M.R. (1982). Apposition beach . In: Beaches and Coastal Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30843-1_17
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