Barrier Islands
A barrier island is a long, thin, sandy stretch of land, oriented parallel to the mainland coast that protects the coast from the full force of powerful storm waves. Between the barrie...
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Offshore Bars
Bars are elongate ridges and mounds of sand or gravel deposited beyond a shoreline by currents and waves. The term offshore bar has been used to describe both submerged bars, and emergen...
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Barrier Island
An elongated island that lies parallel to, but mostly separate from, a coastline. Barrier islands are composed of sediments, mainly sand, deposited by longshore currents, wind, and wave...
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Hemrajie Ramharrack October 30, 2004
Ethical Issues In Science Barrier Islands and Salt Marshes
Barrier Islands and Salt Marshes: Long Island Sound
Geological History
Barrier islands (barr...
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Barrier Islands
Barrier Island
