Usage of Term 'wave-cut'
According to Trenhaile, Sunamura, and Massalink and Hughes, the term 'wave-cut platform' should no longer be used as it assumes that shore platforms are the result of wave action, which is not always true. Shore platforms, like comparable river and lake platforms, are erosional features that develop when removal of saprock and other debris by waves and currents leaves behind a bedrock surface below the water table.
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Shore platform at Southerndown, South Wales
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Raised beach and shore platform, Bleik, Norway
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Shore platforms from Lake Bonneville (Pleistocene), Utah.
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Shore platform at St Bees Head, UK.
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