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A strong ocean storm has sent wave and sand overwash and debris over the dunes, clearing the vegetation almost to the salt marsh on the bay side of Assateague Island.
Ocean overwash area
A natural geomorphological function of this mid-Atlantic barrier island is westward migration. On the northern end of Assateague Island, these ocean sand dunes are moving and encroaching on the edge of woodlands as part of the rollover process.
Sand dunes encroach upon forest and shrub zone
Spartina marsh and pine forest surround much of the Monie Bay component of the Chesapeake Bay, MD National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Wetlands along Little Creek
Spartina marsh and pine forest surround much of the Monie Bay component of the Chesapeake Bay, MD National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Wetlands along Little Creek
Spartina marsh and pine forest surround much of the Monie Bay component of the Chesapeake Bay, MD National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Wetlands along Little Creek
Spartina marsh and pine forest surround much of the Monie Bay component of the Chesapeake Bay, MD National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Wetlands along Little Creek
Spartina marsh and pine forest surround much of the Monie Bay component of the Chesapeake Bay, MD National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Wetlands and forest along Monie Creek
Looking west at the marshes on Cherry Island, next to Smith Island
Cherry Island
Inlet and hook off Cherry Island, next to Smith Island, in Chesapeake Bay
Cherry Island
Looking west at Cod Harbor, on the southern end of Tangier Island. Tangier Sound is in the foreground.
Cod Harbor
Looking west at Cod Harbor, on the southern end of Tangier Island. Tangier Sound is in the foreground.
Cod Harbor
The town of Ewell is on Smith Island, in Chesapeake Bay. Cherry Island is in the foreground.
Ewell
Looking north at seagrasses off Gwynn Island
Gwynn Island
Cherry Island, next to Smith Island, in Chesapeake Bay
Looking west at Cherry Island
Row crops grow on farms on the northern edge of Church Neck, at Nassawadox Creek.
Nassawadox Creek
Looking east at islands in the Nassawadox Creek. Warehouse Creek (middle) and Church Creek (right) split off to the east.
Nassawadox Creek
Looking east, up the Nassawadox Creek
Nassawadox Creek
Church Creek, off the Nassawadox Creek
Off the Nassawadox Creek
Wetland and forest on Point Breeze
Point Breeze
Seagrass off a spit off to the south of Gwynn Island protects Milford Haven.
Spit off Gwynn Island
Spit off Gwynn Island.
Spit off Gwynn Island
Harbor at Tangier on Tangier Island. Tangier Sound, east of the island, is in the foreground.
Tangier
Marshes along the northern side of Tangier Island. Tangier Sound is in the foreground.
Tangier Island
Looking west, the towns of Tylerton and beyond that is Rhodes Point on Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay.
Tylerton and Rhodes Point
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