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strand line
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strand line also strand·line (strndln)
n.
A shoreline, especially one marking an earlier and higher water level.


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Polystyrene is so light and buoyant that we tend to find huge amounts of it on the strandline," says Houghton, pointing to the thick band of seaweed and flotsam that marks the point where the highest tides reach.
They first introduce GPR, describing the technique for nongeophysicists, followed by studies on Aeolian dunes, beach ridges, coastal barriers/beach plains, glacial-marine ice-contact delta deposits, lacustrine strandline deposits, and paleolake shorelines.
He also finds toads feeding on sandhoppers along the strandline in Northumberland; a solitary bee that lays its eggs in empty snail shells; and Arctic terns, whose chicks have just three months to grow before undertaking their epic voyage to the Antarctic.
 
 
 
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