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  2. Barrier island - Wikipedia

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    Barrier island contrasted with other coastal landforms. Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast. [1] They usually occur in chains, consisting of anything from a few islands to more than a dozen.

  3. Estuary - Wikipedia

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    The barrier beaches that enclose bar-built estuaries have been developed in several ways: building up of offshore bars by wave action, in which sand from the seafloor is deposited in elongated bars parallel to the shoreline, reworking of sediment discharge from rivers by a wave, current, and wind action into beaches, overwash flats, and dunes,

  4. Shoal - Wikipedia

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    A tombolo is a bar that forms an isthmus between an island or offshore rock and a mainland shore. In places of reentrance along a coastline (such as inlets, coves, rias, and bays), sediments carried by a longshore current will fall out where the current dissipates, forming a spit. An area of water isolated behind a large bar is called a lagoon.

  5. Spit (landform) - Wikipedia

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    A spit (cognate with the word for a rotisserie bar) or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores. It develops in places where re-entrance occurs, such as at a cove's headlands, by the process of longshore drift by longshore currents. The drift occurs due to waves meeting the beach at an oblique angle, moving ...

  6. 'Barrier West' bubbles forward - AOL

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    Apr. 14—Plans are moving forward toward a brewery opening in the city of Lockport. The proposed business is would be housed in a vacant building at 13 W Main St. At its Wednesday meeting, the ...

  7. List of breweries in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    A pub is also located in Hawai‘i Kai, Oahu. All draft beer served in Hawai‘i is brewed in Kona. Koholā Brewery [16] Lāhainā: Maui: All beers are brewed and packaged on Maui.Located in the former Maui Brewing location. Kauai Island Brewery & Grill [17] Port Allen: Kauai: Honolulu Beerworks [18] Kaka‘ako, Honolulu Oahu: Kauai Beer ...

  8. Gulf Islands National Seashore - Wikipedia

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    Gulf Islands National Seashore geologic cross section. The barrier islands started forming 4500-5400 years ago. On the north side of the islands, the beaches are broad, while on the south side, the beaches include 2 metres (6.6 ft) high dunes on average, but with some reaching 6 metres (20 ft).

  9. Three Rooker Island - Wikipedia

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    The island is west of Tarpon Springs, south of Anclote Key and north of Honeymoon Island. It is accessible only by boat and its shape and size often change from interaction with ocean currents. Compared to neighboring barrier islands, Three Rooker Island is newly formed and emerged in the 1980s as water currents built up the sand bar above sea ...