Like coastlines around the world it is made up of different landforms. Coastal landforms ... Deposition can form beaches like this one, and sand dunes, or bars and spits. It takes thousands ...

Barrier islands protect coasts with dunes. Storms can flatten them. Nature-based, low-cost solutions offer hope.

The size and morphology of coastal dunes is dependent on the complex interaction between controlling winds, sediment supply, and the geomorphology of the nearshore and beach environment.

Coastal dunes are a ridge, or a series of ridges, that form at the rear of a beach and differ from most other constructional coastal landforms in ... large-scale coastal dune development there ...