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Hawaii People walk along a sandy, rocky beach in Malibu, Los Angeles, with ocean waves on the right and houses and hills in the background. beach at Nice County Galway: beach at Connemara beach at Kilkee Wakayama Palm trees lean over a sandy beach with turquoise water and gentle waves near Grande Anse de Salines, Martinique, with a few people swimming in the distance. palm trees in Guadeloupe Maui: Ka‘anapali beach Sand dune beach near Bouctouche, on the east coast of New Brunswick, Can.
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beach, sediments that accumulate along the sea or lake shores, the configuration and contours of which depend on the action of coastal processes, the kinds of sediment involved, and the rate of delivery of this sediment. There are three different kinds of beaches. The first occurs as a sediment strip bordering a rocky or cliffy coast; the second is the outer margin of a plain of marine or fluvial accumulation (free beaches); and the third,...

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