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Anemergent coastline is a stretch along the coast that has been exposed by the sea by a relative fall in sea levels by eitherisostasy oreustasy.[not verified in body]
Emergent coastline are the opposite ofsubmergent coastlines, which have experienced a relative rise in sea levels.[1]
The emergent coastline may have several specificlandforms:
TheScottish Gaelic wordmachair ormachar refers to a fertile low-lying raised beach found on some of the coastlines ofIreland andScotland (especially theOuter Hebrides).
Hudson Bay, inCanada's north, is an example of an emergent coastline. It is still emerging by as much as 1 cm per year.[citation needed] Another example of emergent coastline is theEastern Coastal Plains of theIndian subcontinent.
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