sandbar
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Covering four representative species—the great white, the sandbar, the small-spotted catshark and the spiny dogfish—Daniel C. Abel and Sophie A. Maycock deliver breadth without sacrificing depth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Then the breached sandbar closed and the lagoon started filling up with water, “and all of the sudden there was habitat.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
The two-year-old female calf had been stuck in the tidal lagoon after her pregnant mother was stranded and later died on a sandbar.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
Bar push is caused when deposition on the inside of a bend forms a sandbar, which pushes the curve outward.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
“Tides comin’ in and out this openin’ here push the sand up along the edge, creatin’ the sandbar.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
