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This feature at Rhossili (Wales) is not a raised beach, although it resembles one. It is in fact a solifluction terrace produced by slope processes during the last Ice Age - the Devensian - when the climate was periglacial and sea level was much lower. It is now being eroded back by rising Holocene sea levels, so it is - indirectly - connected with varying sea and land levels, but is not a raised beach...

Emergent coastlines are stretches along the coast that have been exposed by the sea due to a relative fall in sea levels. This occurs due to either isostacy or eustacy. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links Rhossili-RaisedBeach. ... Image File history File links Rhossili-RaisedBeach. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ...

Emergent coastline are the opposite of submergent coastlines which have experienced a relative rise in sea-levels. In earth science a submergent coastline is a coastline which has experienced a rise in sea level, either due to a global sea level change, or local subsidence. ...

Features of an emergent coastline are:

• raised beaches
• raised wave cut platforms
• abandoned caves such as King's Cave, Isle of Arran

The Scottish Gaelic word machair or machar refers to a fertile low-lying raised beach found on the some of the coastlines of Ireland and Scotland, in particular the Outer Hebrides. Although this raised beach at Rhossili (Wales) is now used for farmland, it provides evidence of a glacioeustatic rise in the land of this area. ... The Isle of Arran (Scots Gaelic: Eilean Arainn) is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde with an area of 430 km² (167 square miles). ... Machair The Gaelic word Machair or machar refers to a fertile low-lying coastal plain. ...

Hudson Bay, in Canada's north, has an example of an emerging coastline. Today, it is still emerging by as much as 1 cm/year. New York Harbor, the outflow for Hudson River, is sometimes called Hudsons Bay. Hudson Bay, Canada. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...