Sentence examples for narrow barrier from inspiring English sources

The ocean has cut a wide channel straight through the narrow barrier island to Barnegat Bay.

The three narrow barrier islands lie between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Pamlico Sound to the west.

About 60percentt of the town's south shore is developed, including the 15-mile-long, narrow barrier island called Dune Road, where cottages mingle with mansions.

Being a saltwater species, one would be inclined to think that menhaden would range along the pond's narrow barrier beach, where the water's salinity would be higher.

Much of it is composed of long and narrow barrier islands separated from the mainland by shallow lagoons and from one another by tidal inlets.

It is a narrow barrier island that is unforgiving and vulnerable, having suffered coastal erosion that has exposed the mainland to flooding.

MONTE CARLO — As I watched the Monaco Grand Prix's first track action on Thursday on television and outside the window of the media center, perched above the narrow city streets that form the track I was struck again by the extraordinary virtuosity required of a driver to go around these streets at the speed they do, within the narrow barriers and around the tight corners and curving straights.

One obstacle to applying ENMs for predicting past distributions has been that the spatial resolution of modeled LGM climates was coarse, with grid cells typically 50 km or greater; such coarse-resolution climate data smooth over and obscure sharp environmental gradients and narrow barriers to dispersal.

Gene flow is more rapidly disrupted in poor dispersers because even narrow barriers can be effective isolators [ 6, 7].

The engineers in the room did not shy away from the hard truth that areas outside a Narrows barrier could see an estimated two feet of extra flooding.

Although relative sea level is rising at a slower rate along the south shore of Cape Cod than along NW Black Sea, it is expected to have a greater impact on saltpond water area reduction due to their smaller sizes and narrower barriers.