This habitat is described by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as " Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands " and is the only site of this kind in the United Kingdom.
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The landscape of the park dates back to the Last Glacial Maximum ( ca . 20, 000 years ago ), containing inland dunes and a post-glacial iceway, which is now a chain of three long, narrow lakes.
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IES has been testing and adapting an innovative airborne remote sensing approach for the mapping and status assessment of protected habitats of EU importance IES is mapping such habitats as coastal and inland dunes, moorland, scrubland, grassland, wetland and forest habitats.
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In part, this is because sand on these islands naturally shifts from inland dunes to offshore sandbars, which form in storms and then act as a kind of defense system, breaking waves before they can crash more destructively on the beach.
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On most of the beaches, the waves drove pools of water up to the inland dunes, and Boninfante said that the afternoon high tide had come in 4 feet higher than expected, leading county engineers to expect at least some beach erosion.
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One feature is the areas of inland dune with sandy calcareous grassland, woods and heaths as well as the steep sides of the Elbe valley near Boizenburg and R�terberg ( D�mitz ), whose observation towers offer panoramic view of the Elbe water meadows.
