Transgression


Transgression :

(n.) Geology. The migration of shoreline out of a basin and onto land during retrogradation. A transgression can result in sediments characteristic of shallow water being overlain by deeper water sediments. Ant: regression. See: Condensed Section, Eustasy, Onlap, Regression, Retrogradation, Sequence Stratigraphy, Systems Tract

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