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Assateague Island National Seashore

By Geology and Ecology of National Parks
This color photographs shows a pit (about a foot or two deep) dug into the sand. The pit reveals the layers of sand beneath the
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Layers in a sandpit dug at Tom’s Hook on Assateague Island. The coarser material at the bottom was likely deposited at a time when wind speed and wave height were greater than at the time of deposition of the top layers.

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Courtesy: Maisie Strawn