| Lower densities of common eiders were observed seaward of the barrier islands up to 50 km from shore. |
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| Coastal barriers may be described by their relationships to the mainland as bay barriers, tombolos, barrier spits, and barrier islands. |
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| Those winds will whip or lash coastal communities and batter barrier islands along the mid-Atlantic. |
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| Aerial surveys show that Louisiana's barrier islands have sustained especially heavy losses from Katrina's scouring winds and waves. |
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| The longshore current can carry large amounts of sand along the coast and can form spits, barrier islands and tombolos. |
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| Sandy beaches, sandspits, barrier islands, and shifting sand dunes are common along the coastal margins. |
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| Coastal features such as dunes, barrier islands, salt marshes, and beaches, perform two significant functions. |
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| Area 1: A combination of longshore bars, barrier islands and tidal channel deposits have developed in this area. |
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| Many of those are housed along the outlying string of barrier islands and will be bused across multiple bridges. |
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| The foggy ephemera slowly crystalised until another of Georgia's barrier islands lay enticingly before us. |
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| Of the 50 kelts tagged, 48 kelts made it through the outer array set up in the outer barrier islands of Miramichi bay. |
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| We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation. |
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| A mandatory evacuation of barrier islands in Cape May county, New Jersey, began on Friday. |
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| Wild horses roam some of the barrier islands of America's Atlantic Seaboard. |
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| Other typical habitats include sandy areas behind barrier islands, and sand bodies within inlet mouths. |
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| Cape Hatteras is a bend in Hatteras Island, one of the long thin barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. |
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| One of the biggest barrier islands in the world, Cape Cod shields much of the Massachusetts coastline from North Atlantic storm waves. |
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| Its eastern border is the Sea Islands, a chain of tidal and barrier islands. |
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| Slot-sized redfish are being caught on the backsides of the barrier islands on pinfish, pilchards and on chunks of ladyfish. |
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| In spite of the concerted warnings of the scientific community, governor Bobby Jindal has pushed forward a project to shore up the barrier islands with a sea wall designed to prevent oil from reaching the marshes. |
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| Waves and currents transport the mud, sand and gravel alongshore to adjacent shores such as spits and barrier islands, offshore, into basins and seabeds or into estuaries and bays, thereby resupplying and maintaining marshes. |
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| The problem is that beaches and barrier islands aren't permanent. |
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| Evacuations of its barrier islands began on Thursday afternoon. |
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| Mr. Christie also urged people on barrier islands to leave. |
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| Offshore, a constantly shifting chain of barrier islands and reefs protects the shore from the fury of storms sweeping in from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. |
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| The barrier islands and dunes are sparsely vegetated. |
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| Clinging to a ribbon of barrier islands on America's Atlantic Coast, the park, encompassing more than 12,000 hectares, delights beach-goers and fishermen, but is also an important stop on the flyway for migratory birds. |
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| The common bottlenose dolphin is found in riverine and estuarine areas, bays and channels, and shallow marine waters from the outer coasts of the mainland and barrier islands to the continental slope. |
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| This would also have a profound effect on coastal ecosystems, including loss in the productivity of estuaries, changes in barrier islands, wetland loss and increased vulnerability to coastal erosion and flooding. |
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| All the Sea Islands have what are called dividings, shoal areas behind the barrier islands where the tides meet and divide. |
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| Natural geological systems such as sedimentation and long-shore drift can be harnessed to facilitate the development of barrier islands providing added protection to vulnerable coastal communities. |
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| These typically include sheltered environments such as embankments, estuaries and the leeward side of barrier islands and spits. |
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| The Dutch West Frisian and the German East Frisian Islands are barrier islands. |
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| For thousands of years these barrier islands have survived onslaughts of wind and sea. |
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| Two days later we are building a small driftwood fire on a tiny islet in the Barrier Islands a mile out into the open North Pacific. |
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