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Eroding coastal bluff on Barter Island

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
View looks along an ice-rich permafrost bluff that is eroding muddy chunks of tundra onto a sandy beach.
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Detailed Description

Photographs from a mounted time-lapse camera looking eastward along Barter Island’s north shore document how the coastal bluffs and beach changed during a single summer. Photograph B: Ice-free and wide beach; dark-colored material on beach is fine-grained sediment eroded from bluffs (July 10, 2014).

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Public Domain.