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Submerged sandbar adjacent to a sandy beach.

By Southwest Biological Science Center
Looking down on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. A submerged sandbar is adjacent to a sandy beach.
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Detailed Description

A sandbar provides sediment to a coupled aeolian dunefield downstream of Basalt Rapids on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA (May 11, 2017).

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Public Domain.