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features (en) > physiographic features (en) > beach features (en) > spits (en) > barrier spits (en)

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barrier spits (en)  

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  • Information Barrier spits are long narrow strips of depositional bodies emerging from water, with one end attached to a coast that serves as the source of sediment supply (proximal end) and the other end jutting into open water (distal end), forming a shelter for its inner water.

    Created: 12/17/21

     (en)
  • Information Schmaler, langgestreckter Sandrücken, der ein Randgewässer vom offenen Meer abtrennt

    Created: 11/7/24

     (de)

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