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 Scottish sea levels
2. Buried shorelinesBrian Sissons

At about this time, it began to be recognised that evidence for former sea levels also lay buried beneath other sediments in several Scottish estuarine areas. In retrospect, this was not surprising, since if former shorelines were not level along their lengths, but sloped at different rates away from the area of greatest uplift, some might be buried beneath others. Thus, in addition to visible shorelines identified from raised marine features, “buried beaches” and a buried intertidal erosion surface, the “buried gravel layer”, were identified (Sissons, 1966; Sissons et al., 1966).