Figure 4. Half Mile Beach with coastal sand dunes, back-barrier salt marsh, and Little River tidal inlet and channel. Half Mile Beach forms a beach spit that tapers to the southwest and ends at the tidal inlet. Source: May 9, 1986 air photo annotated by S. M. Dickson. Similar photos available from the Maine Geological Survey catalog (see Dickson, 2001 in references).

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