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Headlands Beach State Park is at the northern terminus of State Route 44 and the Buckeye Trail. [5] The park is between the Mentor Marsh and the Grand River.It is next to Fairport Harbor Coast Guard station and a Morton Salt mine [6] and abuts two other protected areas, Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve to the east and Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve to the west.
The region has gently rolling moraine hills left over from the retreating glaciers, as well as small sandy ridges, which were formed as coastal dunes during periods in which Lake Erie was higher than it is today (14,000-12,000 years ago). [1]
Beach ridges on the north coast of Saaremaa, Estonia. Beach ridge, Lake Ontario, New York, 1895. Miocene beach ridges, San Diego County, California, 1905. Road built on crest of Glacial Lake Iroquois beach ridge, Orleans County, New York, 1889. A beach ridge is a wave-swept or wave-deposited ridge running parallel to a shoreline.
Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve: 25: Lake J. Arthur Herrrick State Nature Preserve: 126.5: Portage Hueston Woods Nature Preserve: 200: Butler Edward F. Hutchins Nature Preserve: 206.48: Delaware Irwin Prairie Nature Preserve: 226.467: Lucas Jackson Bog State Nature Preserve: 63.382: Stark Johnson Ridge: 208.43: Adams Johnson Woods State ...
Name County Size Image Year established; acres km 2; A. W. Marion State Park: Pickaway: 454: 1.84: 1950 Adams Lake State Park: Adams: 96: 0.39: 1950 Alum Creek State Park
Barrier island – Coastal dune landform that forms by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast Bay – Recessed, coastal body of water connected to an ocean or lake Baymouth bar – low and narrow strip of alluvial land made from sand or pebbles Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
A large dune complex is called a dune field, [7] while broad, flat regions covered with wind-swept sand or dunes, with little or no vegetation, are called ergs or sand seas. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Dunes occur in different shapes and sizes, but most kinds of dunes are longer on the stoss (upflow) side, where the sand is pushed up the dune, and have ...
The following is list of beaches in the U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.. Beaches occur both on the ocean shoreline and inland on lakes, rivers, etc.