A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, which results...

Look up transgression in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transgression may refer to: Sin, a violation of God's Ten Commandments or other elements of...

processes Plate tectonics Salt tectonics Tectonic uplift Subsidence Marine transgression Marine regression Sediment transport Fluvial processes Aeolian processes...

seafloor are exposed during a drop in sea level. The opposite event, marine transgression, occurs when flooding from the sea covers previously-exposed land...

processes Plate tectonics Salt tectonics Tectonic uplift Subsidence Marine transgression Marine regression Sediment transport Fluvial processes Aeolian processes...

continental shelves were (at least partly) flooded in response to a major marine transgression (see below). Beach deposits in Alaska, Bermuda and the Bahamas, as...

represents the maximum shoreline of a transgression and therefore a paleo-sea level. The platform of a marine terrace usually has a gradient between...

extinct. Sea levels were high during the Cretaceous period, causing marine transgressions in many parts of the world, and a great inland seaway in what is...

necklace shells, is a family of medium to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The shells of the species...

glacial erosion, glacial meltwater, glacial deposition, marine sediment, marine transgressions, volcanoes, divergent boundaries or river sedimentation...