Fig. 63—First stage in the formation of an inlet through a barrier beach, where ocean waves during some storm, probably at high tide, broke over the sand barrier 2 miles north of Beach Haven, N. J., and washed some of its sand into Little Egg Harbor. (For another good example of wash-overs, see Fig. 68.) Scale, about 1:9,000.
Fig. 64—A tidal delta in Shark River Inlet, Belmar, N. J., as photographed from a height of 10,000 feet, showing shoals at the left, which appear shadowy because they are under water, and the small channels which radiate outward from the narrow inlet like the ribs of a fan. They are the distributaries of this underwater delta. Scale, about 1:11,000.
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