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Oblique aerial photographs of Smith Island, Virginia

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
High waves from Hurricane Joaquin exposed and eroded the marsh platform (green arrow) and transported sand inland burying marsh
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Oblique aerial photographs of Smith Island, Virginia. View looking west along Virginia's barrier-island shore. High waves from Hurricane Joaquin exposed and eroded the marsh platform (green arrow) and transported sand inland burying marsh channels. The yellow arrow in each image points to the same feature.

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