Figure 3.25: Several hundred kilometers farther south of Figure 3.24 (North Carolina coast along the eastern U.S.A.) is the coast of the state of Georgia with barrier islands that are different from the barrier systems of North Carolina. Because the Georgia barrier islands here are in a mixed-energy environment, waves are not the dominant forcing mechanism of coastal change, and the barriers are shorter with more tidal features such as closely spaced tidal inlets that allow exchange of large volumes of seawater between the back barrier and open ocean.
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