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Figure 7. Stable bluff with a vegetated bluff face and a salt marsh shoreline. A low bluff face is covered by shrubs landward of a salt marsh terrace. In this location the mature marsh protects the base of the bluff from rapid erosion and slows bluff recession or retreat.
Last updated on October 6, 2005