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In keeping with its commitment to demonstrate and promote the application of earth-science information to sound environmental planning and decisionmaking, the U.S. Geological Survey is offering this report, Professional Paper 1177-B, which analyzes the processes and hazards associated with coastal barrier islands. This is the second of several publications that follow the style begun with Professional Paper 950, Nature to be Commanded. The first report in this series, Geological Analysis of Fenwick Island, Maryland, A Middle Atlantic Coast Barrier Island, dealt with a highly urbanized barrier island.
Dolan et al. (Wed,) studied this question.