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prograde
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prograde  (prgrd)
Having a rotational or orbital movement that is the same as most bodies within a celestial system. In our solar system, prograde movement for both rotating and orbiting bodies is in a counterclockwise direction when viewed from a vantage point above the Earth's north pole. Compare retrograde.
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During the Olympia interglacial period most of the basin was filled with sediment and then subsequently excavated during the Fraser Glaciation, except for a group of isolated banks; the southern basin was partially filled by the prograding Fraser River Delta during the Holocene.
Environmental marine geoscience 4: Georgia basin: seabed features and ... by Picard, Kim / Geoscience Canada
Contemporaneously micritic (cryptocrystalline) limestones of the Saarde Formation accumulated in the neighbourhood in the north as prograding side-fillings of distal shallow shelf (Nestor & Einasto 1997).
Redox changes in the deep shelf of the East Baltic Basin in the ... by Kiipli, Enli / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
The biogenic carbonate was deposited in prograding clinoforms at rates exceeding 50 cm/1000 y, matching or exceeding top rates downslope from large coralgal reefs.
Marine and atmospheric sciences by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
 
 
 
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