Origin
It is now widely thought that marine terraces are formed during the separated highstands of interglacial stages correlated to Marine Oxygen Isotopic Stages (MIS) (James et al., 1971; Chappell, 1974; Bull, 1985; Ota, 1986; Muhs et al., 1990).
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