Barrier beach

Barrier beach

Barrier beach is a narrow and elongated ridge of sand deposits approximately parallel to the shoreline separated from it by a lagoon.

It is formed on gently sloping Coastlines by longshore drift waves. Materials are deposited under water as off shore sand bars appear above high tide, wave action gradually moves the deposited material to the mainland as barrier

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