| 1. | The beach dunes have yielded archaeological remains of ancient dwelling sites.
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| 2. | Barkas and Ayrton went out onto the beach dunes to sit and think.
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| 3. | The reserve is made up of salt marshes, maritime forests and beach dune areas.
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| 4. | The preserve also features several coastal ecotones, including maritime hammocks, mangrove wetlands, and beach dunes.
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| 5. | Immediately inland is the Temperate Beach Dune, a " pioneer zone " of vegetation growing along the primary dunes.
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| 6. | It is a natural environment-class Provincial Park created to help preserve oak savannah and the beach dune ecology.
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| 7. | It is found on sea cliffs, the edges of beach dunes and salt marshes and tolerates strong winds and sea spray.
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| 8. | Alnmouth's south-beach dune is calcerous, containing mainly marine-animal shell, and is only 2 300 years old.
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| 9. | The toll was evident everywhere on Hatteras Island, where wind and waves flung beach dunes onto the main highway and chewed up the asphalt.
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| 10. | The formation of the sandy beach dunes is due largely in part to the presence of coastal grasses and other plants establishing themselves in the sand.
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