Sentences with phrase «new coastal plain»

There, Haystack Rock remained nestled in Oregon's new coastal plain.

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The northern third of the delta is lowering at the rate of about 4 to 8 mm per year due to compaction of strata underlying the plain, seismic motion, and the lack of sufficient new sediment to re-nourish the delta margin being eroded by Mediterranean coastal currents.

Special attrations include coastal and inland wildflower plains, Dongara, Morawa, Mullewa, Geraldton, Kalbarri and historic New Norcia.

Now a new study by a group of geologists from the University of Vermont and the U.S. Geological Survey have confirmed that hypothesis through research using extensive drilling in the coastal plain of Maryland.

The new study — based on extensive drilling in the coastal plain of Maryland — confirms this hypothesis, and provides a firm estimate of how quickly this drop is happening.