A low, essentially continuous mound of beach or beach-and-dune material heaped up by the action of waves and currents on the backshore of a beach, which is beyond the present limit of storm waves. These ridges roughly parallel the relict or present shoreline.

A low, essentially continuous mound of beach and dune material heaped up by the ction of waves and currents on the backshore of a beach beyond the present limit of storm waves or of ordinary tides, and occurring singly or as one of a series of approximately parallel deposits. They represent successive positions of an advancing shoreline.

An arcuate ridge of sand that parallels or sub-parallels a coast. Beach ridges are formed by fluctuation in water level that create the core of the ridge. Later they increase in size by the addition of dune sand.

A low extensive ridge of beach material piled up by storm waves landward of the BERM. Usually consists of very coarse SAND, GRAVEL or shells. Occurs singly or as a series of more or less parallel ridges.

A beach ridge is a wave-swept or wave-deposited ridge running parallel to a shoreline. It is commonly composed of sand as well as sediment worked from underlying beach material. The movement of sediment by wave action is called littoral transport.