Transgressive


Transgressive :

(adj.) Geology. Pertaining to transgression, 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. Syn: onlap. See: Condensed Section, Eustasy, Retrogradation, Sequence Stratigraphy, Systems Tract

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