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Figure 2. Highly unstable bluff with an unvegetated bluff face and a beach/gravel flat shoreline. The bluff face is too unstable to support vegetation. This bluff, a glacial esker, is eroded by waves to create a mixed sand and gravel beach in front the bluff.
Last updated on October 6, 2005