Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations
Small sand volume barrier islands · By Dirk Frankenberg
Sand lobes
Figure 4. Sand from a hurricane overwash has killed part of this salt marsh. (Photograph by the author. More about the photograph)
Figure 4 shows the inland edge of the overwash event first seen in Figure 2. Note the two lobes of sand, one on either side of what is now a peninsula of salt marsh extending seaward from the main marsh area. These sand lobes have covered over and killed the marsh underneath them.
