barrier islands

Dr. Sallenger and his colleagues concluded that the barrier islands might be the most "manageable place to start" their research.

The presence of sea ice and of permafrost helps protect Arctic barrier islands for much of the year.

Still, the new discovery and new classification of barrier islands around the Arctic Ocean is an eye-opener.

Dredges would suck sand from the sea floor and spray it in a protective arc along barrier islands.

The ebb and flow of tides help sculpt an array of landforms on coasts worldwide, including spits, barrier islands, and dunes.

In contrast, continental margins near actively colliding plates, which generate earthquakes and volcanoes, produce fewer barrier islands.

Oil appears to have reached beaches and barrier islands in Alabama and the western Panhandle of Florida.

Sunset Beach, the smallest of Brunswick County's barrier islands, is a popular vacation destination.

Barrier islands in the Arctic are half as long (5 kilometers, or 3 miles) as the global average (10 kilometers or 6 miles).

Barrier islands are important to the Gulf ecosystem: They protect the marshes from ocean storms and erosion.

In Louisiana, temporary sand berms are being built to protect barrier islands.

Farther out, we reach the bird nesting grounds on the barrier islands.

According to a new survey, there are 2, 149 barrier islands around the world, spanning 20, 783 kilometers (12, 914 miles) of coastline.

Louisiana officials want to start building sand berms as barrier islands, to block oil from entering the fragile marsh ecosystems;