Sentence examples for beach barrier from inspiring English sources

Subsequently, the modern beach barrier built up by wave reworking of the early HST.

High-resolution seismic data and a borehole, 60 m deep, located on the beach barrier permit an accurate study of the geometry and lithology of the system.

Indeed, the only locality pair separated by a long beach that did not show a genetic disjunction (Lebu-Tirua) is in the immediate vicinity of a large coastal island (Isla Mocha) that may effectively connect the two populations despite the beach barrier.

The GIS stores redigitised architectural elements (beach barriers, tidal channels, intertidal flats, supratidal flats, and coastal fresh water peat) from earlier mappings in separate map layers.

Some other technical errors were also made, often censored, including the mistaken reversed orientation of the beach barriers; the tripod obstructions with a mine at the apex.

It would cause much faster erosion of beaches, barrier islands and marshes.

We hope that Long Islanders who value our coast will endorse our goal of restoring and using natural processes to preserve our beaches, barrier islands and bays.

Backed by a major Florida landowner, it is part of a plan to create "a new national and international destination," as one investor presentation proclaims, in a relatively sleepy region of beaches, barrier islands and wetlands.

The problem is that beaches and barrier islands aren't permanent.

Many people imagine that beaches and barrier islands are just mountains of sand that sit unmoving at the edge of our shores.

The Jersey Shore was the first developed coastline in the United States, but its buildings are inherently precarious, because beaches and barrier islands aren't naturally permanent.