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Eroding coastal bluff on Barter Island

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
View along a snowy, grassy coastal bluff that is slumping into the ocean, waves are right at the bottom of cliff.
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Detailed Description

Photograph 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. The photograph shows a late-summer extreme storm with waves crashing into the bluff (September 3, 2014).

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Public Domain.