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Slide 24: Banana
Bay, St. Kitts, before Hurricane Luis
Here on the south
coast of the Southeast Peninsula of St. Kitts, there used to be wide
beach backed by a low dune and seagrape trees.....
Slide
25: Banana Bay, St. Kitts, after Hurricane Luis
......during Hurricane
Luis, the beach and the dunes were eroded, leaving ledges of beachrock
exposed on the beach. This
beachrock, which is formed by a chemical process within the body of the
sand beach, can be seen here exposed at the surface. |
