| 1. | Cars are banned on most of Fire Island, a 30-mile barrier beach.
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| 2. | Chesil Beach is a barrier beach on the southwest coast of the county.
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| 3. | Lacking barrier beaches, it is directly exposed to Lake Ontario's winds and waves.
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| 4. | The two barrier beaches are both nesting sites for the endangered piping plover.
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| 5. | However, the barrier beach with its sand dunes eventually closed this opening permanently.
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| 6. | The Chavara barrier beach portion contains concentration of heavy minerals above 60 %.
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| 7. | The shortened Napatree Point is now a barrier beach without any roads or houses.
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| 8. | Around 60 % of the Chavara barrier beach portion is composed of heavy minerals.
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| 9. | Overall, the refuge encompasses over of barrier beach, intertidal wetland and fragile island habitats.
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| 10. | Barrier beaches and river deltas migrated eastward into the seaway.
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