Beach flat
Flate beach (from the Norwegian beach Flaten ) or beach disk called non-west and north of the Scandinavian coast and locally at other coasts, in something present or previous periglazialem resulting climate, entirely or mostly submerged coastal platform . Beach flats consist of rocks and can be only a few hundred meters, but also up to fifty kilometers wide. Towards the sea they drop slightly, towards the inland they rise steeply. Characteristic are their hat mountains, named after their shape, which are often several hundred meters high, and their terraces caused by erosionthat run around the summit like a hat brim . The origin of the beach slab is still unclear today. For fishermen and farmers in Norway, the beach flat with its connection of land and sea was and is a settlement and economic area, mainly because of the protected natural harbors, the nearby fish banks and the loose rock deposited in the depressions .
literature
- Wilhelm Evers: Basics of a surface design in southern Norway with special consideration of the coastal platform (beach flat) and the submarine banking areas , Leuwer in Komm. Heft 89, Bremen 1941
- August Petermann, Ernst Behm, Alexander Georg Supan, Paul Max Harry Langhans, Nikolaus Creutzburg, Hermann Haack: Petermanns geographische Mitteilungen , Justus Perthes Volume 106, University of Michigan 1962