Provides a detailed physical description of the following islands and 

 beach areas: 



Maine : Great Wass Island, Harrington Bay Area, Mt. Desert Island, Kenne- 

 bunk-Cape Porpoise area. 



Massachusetts : Cape Anne, Marblehead and Marblehead Neck, Boston Harbor, 

 Phymouth Harbor, Provincetown and eastern shore of outer Cape Cod, western 

 shore of outer Cape Cod, southeast coast of Cape Cod, south side of Cape 

 Cod, Nantucket Island, Tisburg Great Pond area on Martha's Vineyard. Gay 

 Head Cliffs and vicinity, Martha's Vineyard. 



Rhode Island : southeastern coast (east from Narragansett Bay), Watch Hill 

 Point. 



Connecticut : eastern shoreline. 



New York : Moriches Inlet, Fire Island Inlet, Jones Inlet, Oak Neck Area, 

 all on Long Island. 



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Sterling, D. 1967. The outer lands: a natural history guide to Cape Cod, 



Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island. The Natural 



History Press, Garden City, New York. 192 pp. 



This volume, which includes a subject index, is a natural history guide 

 to the area, and can also serve as an ecology and field reference, since 

 it includes a discussion of landscape, distinctive animal and plant life, 

 and geological formation. 



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Wasserman, S. E., and D. B. Gilhousen. 1976. Prediction of meteorological 



factors related to beach erosion at New Jersey and Long Island, New York. 



Journal of Applied Meteorology 15(4) :313-318 . 



Discusses prediction of meteorological factors related to storm-caused 

 beach erosion on the New Jersey and Long Island, Mew York, coasts. 



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Yasso, W. E., and E. M. Hartman, Jr. 1975. Beach forms and coastal processes, 



MESA New York Bright Atlas. New York Sea Grant Institute, Monograph 11. 



51 pp. 



Discusses erosion and littoral drift of barrier structures on Long 

 Island, effectiveness of protection measures employed, and problems stem 

 ming from man's encroachment. 



Gardiners Island 



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Gustavson, T. C. 1976. Paleotemperature analysis of the marine Pleistocene 



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