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Cuspate foreland

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A cuspate foreland, also called a cuspate barrier or, in Britain, a ness, is a coastal or lakeshore landform built mainly by longshore drift. Sand and shingle accrete and prograde outward from the shoreline, building a triangular, cusp shaped point of land.

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