Beach-Dune Systems Crossword

A long, usually narrow, strip of sand and shells heaved up by wave action along the shore
Mounds of sand piled up by wind
Face open water along seashores
Long, narrow islands parallel to the coast. Each barrier island has a barrier beach on its ocean side
Have beaches and fields of dunes
Have wetlands, notably salt marshes and mangrove swamps
Consists of beaches, dunes, berms, flat lands, dry swales, and mounds that are composed of mostly sands, shells, and marls
An elongated pile of sand pushed up in the water offshore from a beach by unusually strong winds and high tides
The zone that is wet by each high tide
The sand, normally dry, above the high-tide line (only wet by rains)
A low concave area between dunes
A shrub zone with shrub oaks and slash pines
A beach ridge pushed up by storm waves parallel to a low-energy shore
A stand of mixed hardwoods lying inland from coastal scrub and pine on an old dune that has been stable for a long time
A closed-canopy hardwood hammock growing on an elevated mound of shells and bones