Based on Pocket park and Pocket beach I suspect it is an informal name for a small desert that is surrounded by otherwise non-desert geography . talk ) 09 : 22, 3 July 2009 ( UTC)
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From Cabo Corrientes north to Punta Ardita and on into Panama the Baud?Mountains meet the ocean in steep cliffs, rising up to as high as, with small indentations in the coast providing small pocket beaches, some sandy, but most are shingle or cobble.
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Littoral cells are usually an area where changes in the volume of sediment directly affects changes in the coastline, and ideally they are defined to minimise longshore sediment exchange with other littoral cells, for example, a pocket beach surrounded by rocky headlands ( which are presumed to exclude sediments ).
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Examples of artificial pocket beaches include over 100 such systems on Chesapeake Bay in the United States, each consisting of several individual pocket beaches; the Fisher Key, Florida project constructed on a dredge spoil island originally consisting of cobble dredge material;, and the Fred Howard Park Beach that was constructed offshore of a muddy mangrove shoreline.
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Examples of artificial pocket beaches include over 100 such systems on Chesapeake Bay in the United States, each consisting of several individual pocket beaches; the Fisher Key, Florida project constructed on a dredge spoil island originally consisting of cobble dredge material;, and the Fred Howard Park Beach that was constructed offshore of a muddy mangrove shoreline.