Raised Beaches and Abandoned Cliffs:
Areas of former shore platforms that are left at a higher level than present sea level.
• Inland from present coastline, possibly with abandoned cliffs, wave cut notches,
caves, etc behind beach.
• After emergence no longer affected by wave processes but weathering (vegetation)
and mass movement.
E.g = Isle of Portland, Southern tip
15m high raised beach formed in Tyrrhenian inter-glacial period. 1m frost shattered
limestone debris, cryoturbation due to freezing and thawing of permafrost in subsoil in final
glacial period.