Coastal area between the beach head and high water, potentially affected by large waves during high tides.

the dry part of a beach lying closest to land that is only covered with water during the highest tides or severe storms.

The portion of a beach that extends from the high-tide line inland to the sea cliff or vegetation line. Swash reaches the backshore only during major storms.

the generally dry portion of the beach between the berm crest and the vegetation line that is submerged only during very high sea levels and eroded only during moderate to strong wave events.

Part of a beach that is usually dry and is reached only by the highest tides; by extension, a narrow strip of relatively flat coast bordering the sea.

The upper, generally dry, zone of the shore, extending landward from the upper limit of wave wash at high tide to the upper limit of shore-zone processes.

(1) The upper part of the active BEACH above the normal REACH of the TIDES (high water), but affected by large WAVES occurring during a high. (2) (SMP) The accretion or erosion zone, located landward of ordinary high tide, which is normally wetted only by storm tides.

The portion of the shoreline located landward of the berm crest, only wetted in very high tides or storms, technically between "ordinary high water" and the highest water line.

The zone of the shore or beach lying between the foreshore and the coastline and acted upon by waves only during severe storms, especially when combined with exceptionally high water.

Area behind the shore. This coastal feature is located between the beach berm and the backshore slope.