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ophis: tinkering
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ophis: cordgrass lining marsh at rear under siege in foreground
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ophis: wave action exposes stones and perhaps moves some
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ophis: looking SE
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ophis: bye bye marsh
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ophis: peat stripped of grass weathers gray-green
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ophis: high marsh remnant
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ophis: beach to south not protected by marsh
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ophis: disassembly
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ophis: marsh about gone
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ophis: wrack line and beach grass plantation
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ophis: grass hanging on
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ophis: at the beach's west end, a low wave-cut scarp
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ophis: sandy yellow subsoil exposed at scarp's upper end
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ophis: as the scarp slopes seaward, the yellow subsoil burrows under darker topsoil developed in the same material
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ophis: bleaching bones
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ophis: overhang steepens as scarp sinks into sand
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ophis: lowest portion scarp
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ophis: overview looking NW
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ophis: six years of erosion
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ophis: big picture