tidal flat
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In the Triassic period - between about 250 and 201 million years ago - the wall was a tidal flat, which later became part of the Alpine chain.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025
Yubudo, South KoreaAs Byeongwoo Lee slowly walks across a sandy tidal flat on Yubudo, a small island off the west coast of South Korea, the birding guide does so quietly.
From National Geographic • Aug. 15, 2023
The state’s Department of Enterprise Services has evaluated several options, and after a lengthy process has chosen to restore the lake to an estuary, a brackish tidal flat where the river meets the sea.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2023
The rocks indicate that area was once an estuary, where a river dumped into a tidal flat.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022
He took his buckets and jars and his crowbar and put his sandwiches in one pocket and his thermos bottle in another pocket and he went down the cliff to the tidal flat.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
