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Question 1

What is a raised beach?

Answer 1

Beach which has been raised above sea level by isostatic rebound or eustatic sea level change

• can show progression of plate uplift
• usually have larger sediment left, smaller taken away by marine processes when at sea level

Question 2

What is isostatic change?

Answer 2

• ice pushes land down
• when ice melts, land rises

Question 3

What is isostatic readjustment?

Answer 3

• mantle is soft + viscous
• results in other parts of crust reacting to isostatic changes
• seesaw effect

Question 4

What are fossil cliffs?

Answer 4

Steep inland cliffs
- can find sea caves and wave cut notches and platforms at different levels above sea level