Chevron (land form)
Wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about deposits of sediment across the earth's surface. For folds in rock layers, see Chevron (geology).
A chevron is a wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world. The term chevron was originally used independently by Maxwell and Haynes[1] and Hearty and others[2] for large, V-shaped, sub-linear to parabolic landforms in southwestern Egypt and on islands in the eastern, windward Bahamas.