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Paleoshoreline

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Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms

Synonyms

Contact; Level; Shoreline

Definition

Features inferred to be formed by past coastal processes.

Subtypes

  1. (1)

    Oceanic (global) paleoshorelines

  2. (2)

    Lacustrine (local) circular, concentric paleoshorelines (paleolake strandlines) (shoreline features)

Description of Proposed Examples

The two most continuous contacts on Mars are:

  1. (1)

    The Arabia shoreline, previously named Contact 1 (Clifford and Parker 2001), which follows the gradational and fretted dichotomy boundary, as shown in Fig. 1 (Parker et al. 1989, 1993). The Arabia shoreline has been inferred from cliffs, benches, and layers located mostly along the transition topography (Transition Topography) from the ancient southern highlands to the younger northern lowlands (Fig. 2). Some of the morphologies of the Arabia shoreline were interpreted to be the results of mass flow (Tanaka 1997), volcanic (Leone 2014), tectonic (Withers and Neumann 2001), or impact processes (de Villiers et al. 2010).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany

    Gino Erkeling

  2. Department of Earth Sciences (Erdwissenschaften), Institute of Geophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Sonneggstrasse 5, Room H28, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Giovanni Leone

  3. Konkoly Thege Miklos Astronomical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Ákos Kereszturi

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Erkeling, G., Leone, G., Kereszturi, Á. (2015). Paleoshoreline. In: Hargitai, H., Kereszturi, Á. (eds) Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3134-3_248

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