How and why do barrier islands and tidal inlets move over time?
What will be an ideal response?
Barrier islands are long narrow ridges of land that form parallel to the mainland. Tidal inlets separate the islands and focus tide-produced currents between the lagoon and open ocean. The barrier islands and inlets shift in the direction of longshore currents that erode, transport, and deposit the barrier-island sediment. The longshore currents deposit sediment on the up-current side of an inlet and erode the down-current side of the inlet. New inlets may form where storms erode a breach through a barrier island and divide it into two or more islands.
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