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cuspate

(kŭs′pāt′) also

cuspated

(-pā′tĭd)

adj.

1. Having a cusp.

2. Shaped like a cusp.

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This was caused by the attack of storm waves with extreme high runup levels, which reached the cliff base with less energy dissipation due to localized lowering and narrowing of the beach in front of the cliff, these corresponding to one of rip-current embayments of a cuspate shoreline formed by storm waves.

Rocky coast processes: with special reference to the recession of soft rock cliffs

Irregular contacts are characterised by smooth, ovoid or elongate, cm-scale undulations that curve outwards from intrusive margins and are separated by cuspate, sediment-filled invaginations.

First report of a Middle-Upper Permian magmatism in the SE Iberian ranges: characterisation and comparison with coeval magmatisms in the western Tethys/Primeros datos del magmatismo permico medio-superior del SE de la Cordillera Iberica: caracterizacion y comparacion con magmatismos contemporaneos del Tethys occidental

Depositional contacts are cuspate and concave towards the sea while erosional contacts are linear and sub-parallel to the modern shore.

Section III: Earth & atmospheric sciences

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