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Sunset Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida, after Tropical Storm Colin

By Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
Piles of seaweed fragments on sand beach. Low sand cliff on left with broken walkway. Multistory buildings, clouds in distance.
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Photograph taken June 7, 2016, one day after Tropical Storm Colin, on Sunset Beach in the town of St. Pete Beach, Florida. Storm waves eroded the beach and dune, producing a cliff-like feature called a beach scarp.

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Public Domain.