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

Saemangeum developers now plan to build an airport over the last remaining tidal flat, Sura, with construction scheduled to begin in 2024.

From National Geographic • Aug. 15, 2023

Today, this tidal flat is in the vicinity of King Street Station.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2022

The rocks indicate that area was once an estuary, where a river dumped into a tidal flat.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022

He drove through the town and down to the cliff below which his tidal flat lay.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck