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Barrier Island dune

Caption: Representation of a barrier island, in this case sand dunes overlay a shingle bar/barrier.

In this case the morphology of the sand dune is driven by the direction of movement of longshore drift. Wind speed and direction is less important than in other types of dune.

 

 
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