Figure 6. Pea Island, N. C. , viewed south across Oregon Inlet (overwash 

 and flood-tide delta flats comprise most of the western two-thirds of 

 the island; the Atlantic Ocean is at the left; Pamlico Sound is at the 



right of this photograph) 



Figure 7. Relic beach ridges at Cape Henry, Va . (these ridges formed in 

 the past as the cape built north and eastward; Virginia Beach is at the 



foreground) 



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