Sentence examples for beach dunes from inspiring English sources

For homes and businesses directly on the beach, dunes often create a false sense of security.

Dune Capital is named after beach dunes near his mansion in the Hamptons.

We visited Sand Dollar Beach and retrieved two sediment cores from the shallow, freshwater lake behind the beach dunes.

These analyses may prompt the designers to adjust the heights of buildings, roads or beach dunes in their blueprints.

They also cause considerable damage to various crop areas such as soybean plantations, rice plantations, sugar cane fields, and sea oats (which stabilize Mississippi's beach dunes) (GSMFC, 2005).

$21. Celice and Joseph, middle-aged zoologists, revisit the desolate beach dunes where they first made love 30 years earlier and attempt an anniversary reprise.

After all, Mrs. Starch is a nearly six-foot-tall tyrant who wears "her dyed blond hair piled to one side of her head, like a beach dune".

To explore the beach, dune area, maritime forest and batteries, obtain a map at the park's visitor center, the large brick building near the park's entrance.

Historical erosion rate estimated by overlaying aerial photographs was about 5 m per year, while LITPROF simulations suggested that approximately 5 m of beach dune would be eroded by storm waves.

However, storms primarily tend to erode the coastline (beach, dune), while tsunamis may also deliver terrestrial material further inland such as human artefacts and plants.

Beach dune ridges may extend over hundreds of metres to kilometres inland and are commonly stabilised by grass vegetation.