Abstract:/ A beach-ridge complex is a migrating sediment body constructed and kept in motion by high-energy processes, and the same processes that construct these features will, in time, partially or completely destroy them. The beach-ridge complex along the shore of southwestern Lake Michigan serves as an example. This body of sediment, approximately 17 by 3 km has undergone considerable change in the last 3,000 years, moving about 13 km along the shore as a result of forces generated by the Lake Michigan system-erosi… Show more
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