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Beaches

Beaches

Eight brief thoughts about sand

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Jan 28, 2023
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“Beach Baskets In Holland” (1904), Wassily Kandinsky

Is a beach the lip of the ocean, or the gums of the land? Do beaches end at the waterline or run deeper? I looked it up and found that what we call beach, the dry part, is actually a “berm,” and a berm has a crest and a face, and then comes the “swash zone” – great name – which is the part that gets we…

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