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Figure 4. Unstable bluff with a partially vegetated bluff face and a beach/gravel flat shoreline. Slump scars on the bluff face expose sand, gravel, and roots. Fine sediments are removed by waves and currents, leaving gravel to form a beach at the base of the bluff.
Last updated on October 6, 2005