The northern shore of Washington's Olympic Peninsula has a saltwater setting without the pounding surf of open ocean to the west. The Strait of Juan de Fuca, the busy shipping channel for Puget Sound ...

The Kinburn Spit is a narrow finger of sand and scrub, barely three miles long, that juts from the wider Kinburn Peninsula into the Black Sea at the mouth of the Dnipro River south of Kherson. It and ...

Despite rising sea levels and increasing hurricane threats, developers have sought for more than two decades to build an exclusive resort community on a barren sand spit south of Charleston. But each ...

Journal of Coastal Research, SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 70. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM 2014 (April 2014), pp. 616-620 (5 pages) The Solis Chico river, located on the southern Uruguayan ...

The Cabedelo sand spit, located at the Douro river mouth estuary in Porto, Portugal, is a very dynamic morphologic system. Until now, the Cabedelo sand spit had been monitored using several ...

The sand spit straddling the Bridgeport and Fairfield line has remained largely unchanged since the 1600s, serving as a protective barrier for Ash Creek, the sensitive tidal ecosystems there and now ...

The sun was shining on Fox Island on Tuesday afternoon, April 1, as a small group gathered by the greenish shoreline of the sand spit, looking for creatures exposed by the low tide. From now until ...