Types of Coastal Bluffs - Figure 1 - Maine Geological Survey

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Figure 1. Highly unstable bluff with an unvegetated bluff face and a salt marsh shoreline. Sediments on the bluff face are exposed and fallen tree trunks lie at the base of the bluff. A salt marsh has recently formed on the tidal flat, partly on the top of an old landslide deposit.

Last updated on October 6, 2005

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