prograde

adj

1. Moving in a forward direction, especially with respect to other bodies in the same system.
2. Being a metamorphic change resulting from a higher pressure or temperature.

verb

1. Of sediment, to build out seawards in conditions of marine regression.

   “In some localities the bank margins of several cycles are stacked above each other^([sic]), in other places they backstep or prograde relative to each other.”