An alluvial plain shoreline is a zone where an alluvial deposit sloping upward into a mountain range contacts ocean or lake waters. The concept is part of D. W. Johnson's (1919) shoreline classification and is a subdivision of his Neutral Shoreline category in which the shoreline characteristics are related to neither emergence nor submergence.
A portion of South Island, New Zealand, has an alluvial fan coast “straightened by wave erosion” (Shepard, 1973) that may serve as an example. C. A. M. King (1972) cites the northwest coast of India as example, but E. Ahmad (1972) believes that India's only Neutral Shorelines are deltaic.
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Ahmad, E., 1972. Coastal Geomorphology of India. New Delhi: Orient Longmans, 222p.
Johnson, D. W., 1919. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 584p.
King, C. A. M., 1972. Beaches and Coasts. New York: St. Martin's Press, 570p.
Shepard, F. P., 1973. Submarine Geology. New York: Harper and Row, 517p.
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Aronow, S. (1982). Alluvial plain shoreline . In: Beaches and Coastal Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30843-1_11
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