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Traveling wave with an abrupt vertical front or wall of water. Under certain conditions, the leading edge of a tsunami wave may form a bore as it approaches and runs onshore. A bore may also be formed when a tsunami wave enters a river channel, and may travel upstream penetrating to a greater distance inland than the general inundation.
Ãâó: library.thinkquest.org/16132/html/glossary/tsunami...
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A wall of water or wave, usually produced by tidal action. In Medano Creek, bores are formed by the surge flow of the creek.
Ãâó: www.nps.gov/grsa/resources/curriculum/glossary.htm
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A broken swell wave travelling shorewards across the surf zone.
Ãâó: www.deh.gov.au/coasts/publications/nswmanual/gloss...
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Very rapid rise of the tide, in which the advancing flood waters form a wave with an abrupt front.
Ãâó: www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/jh/earth/diction...
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(Icelandic, Swedish) [from burdr birth] Primeval progenitor of cosmic life in the Norse Eddas. During the "frost giant" (long ages of nonlife) the cow Audhumla (symbol of fertility) licked salt from the blocks of ice which were all that existed in the Great Void (Ginnungagap). She uncovered the head of Buri, first divine being. ...
Ãâó: www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/br-bz.htm
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